Word: weather
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Concerned, I called a convenient authority on feminism—my mother, who as a young woman interned for Bella Abzug, and whom I suspect of having once been a radical. (I was once convinced that she was an ex-member of the Weather Underground very effectively disguised as a suburban matron, due to her liberal leanings and a suspicious lack of anecdotes about her past.) Anyway, she confirmed that replacing “girl” with “woman” had once been a central concern of feminists...
Typically, most people try to assign such an inglorious distinction to autumn, a time which precedes the snowy festivities of winter and comes right after the good weather has just about run its course. And logic, at least on the surface, works...
...also work in the summer—seriously cutting into time for sports, playing or watching—and I’d be foolish to begin to misrepresent the season as a utopia that swings around every few months and rids one of all kinds of bad weather, depression, and responsibility...
...sitting here in April—the pre-season season—teetering on the brink of 60 degree weather in the Boston area, it’s difficult not to stray and think of even warmer climes. It’s a trying thing, I’m finding, to take spring for what it’s worth, and enjoy the undercard as much as the main event...
...another S on the third, each a “piece” of the puzzle. But while their creative insight may have been sub par, the fifth-ranked co-eds, led by skippers Cardwell Potts, Vince Porter and Clay Johnson, sailed well enough on a weekend of fickle weather to finish second...