Word: weather
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...American dream, greet each other in the Dunkin’ Donuts, on the way to work. Unused warehouses and office space line some streets, but far more are filled with identical row houses, with children playing in cramped side yards. Neighbors hold conversations from their porches in good weather, fanning themselves to stave off the heat...
...intervention from Mother Nature. Rain on the morning of the Senior Olympics, a battle of houses in events such as tug-of-war and dodgeball, could have put a damper on the festivities, but according to Adams, the Class of ’06 would not succumb to the weather. “I heard people say they almost enjoyed it more with the rain,” she said. “Limbo was especially fun with the grass all wet,” said Adams. “[The rain] was fun in its own right...
...Still, despite the gloomy shift in the political weather, some certainties held strong: We knew that presidential power would never again run amok—Watergate had inoculated the nation against that, once and for all. And however far to the right the U.S. shifted, after Vietnam we knew we’d finally buried the arrogance of power. Never again would Americans invade a nation halfway around the world in order to bestow democracy at gunpoint. Right...
...four hours, warming him up and keeping him awake until guides arrived to take Hall to the camp. Osborne and his team turned their attention again to the summit, looming 150 meters (492 feet) above them. Osborne and his team decided to give up the climb because inclement weather was expected, and they did not want to be the cause of another rescue that day.“You wish in a way that you had never seen the guy,” Osborne said. “The amount of money you pay, the amount of effort...
...world. Oh, Harvard, I groaned, why couldn’t you produce a better system? As my time here continued, so did my complaints. I complained about issues of diversity, unfair “remedies” to the grade inflation that I never saw, the men, and the weather. As an executive of The Harvard Crimson, I listened to—and sympathized with—the complaints of many other members of the Harvard community. So focused was I on what was wrong with Harvard that, for a good portion of my undergraduate career, I never really took...