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...been alerted by French intelligence to watch for suspicious Chinese behavior, insisted that the man be examined immediately by an airport physician. The examination established that the Chinese had been injected with powerful sedatives, which had lowered his temperature. Hence he was dressed in six sweaters for warmth...
...moving invisible around you, winter a fair opponent, cold all behind the ears and in moon shadow more than afternoon suns naked in the midnight standing in the moonlight, with everything visible in precise shadow is quite silence, the reflected sun, fluid in its coolness is substantial as its warmth in day, contouring in degree around arms and neck and chest, a diminishing sensation into mystery of deeper shadow than sun an adobe ruin cut into and through a hill so that the builders had only to brick two end walls, cover the roof and put in small windows...
Standing on top, when the sun rises above the mountains at eye level and the whole day casts its shadow below you-always in sun, always grateful for the light and warmth and presence. When that dawn joins the silence of birds calling for miles clear through the valleys, deer in the shadow of mountain eclipse, before the sun is over; and then a band of light the length of the mesa, a light which descends to the simple base of earth as sun moves into higher brightness...
...having written about the sunrise of New Mexico, it becomes impossible to elaborate. It is not real-days and nights on a mesa-the warmth and meaning of the sun when clouds brought the chill of the altitude. Some have wondered why Indians with histories of peace lived on mesas when water had to be carried from the valleys around...
...cold weather and swirling winds made both viewing and playing uncomfortable. DeMichele, after seeing Ignacio's throw, raced off the field immediately and jumped into the warmth of his car and his girlfriend...