Word: vernal
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...cynical as I make it to be, but this question lurks up behind every unsuspecting student who has returned from spring break. There's nothing inherently wrong with being curious about how your classmates plan to spend their summers. I, too, am guilty of asking everyone I see their vernal whereabouts...
...catastrophic event in the twilight years of the 20th century, duly noting the rise in the number of obscure cults and the increasingly fevered pitch of their rantings. And it is not just that time of the century; it is that time of year too, with Holy Week, the vernal equinox and a partial lunar eclipse converging, all heated up by the extraordinary Hale-Bopp comet lighting the night skies. For those who go in for cosmological conjunctions, it was a perfect week for an apocalypse. For those who seek more human motives, there was the intriguing report...
Winter weight workouts combined with mid-February training on a barely thawed Charles River highlight the Black and White's efforts to hasten both the vernal equinox and boat finishes. A winter's worth of hard work could prove the deciding factor in the success of this year's women's crews come April...
Doubters need only take a quick look at the sky. Harvard has the presence of mind to invite prospective freshman to Cambridge during spring. By spring, we don't mean the time between the vernal equinox and the summer solstice...
...Broadway dancing. By 1926 she had formed a group, which performed in New York. The masterpieces began to flow, as they would over several decades. There was a cluster of distinctively American works, such as Letter to the World, about Emily Dickinson, and the ever vernal Appalachian Spring. Though a quintessential modernist, she was attracted to doomed classical heroines: Clytemnestra, Medea, Alcestis, Phaedra...