Word: weatherized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...right fielder Tom Stack-Babich. “He crushed that one.” “That was definitely the highlight of last year,” Jenkins adds.Jenkins hit another home run with his October marriage proposal on the banks of the Charles. In beautiful autumn weather, with Stack-Babich hiding out taking photographs, and with a ring Ashley unwittingly transported north from their native North Carolina (assist to mom), he popped the question. “That’s one of those Southern things, it’s kind of traditional,” Jenkins...
...Christi, Texas. What do you find so distinct and compelling about the city?BJ: It’s a city that’s interestingly situated. It’s right on the Gulf of Mexico, so it’s consistently vulnerable to hurricanes and all sorts of weather. It’s also a city that doesn’t know what it is; there’s a military contingent, there’s a farming and ranching contingent, there’s a tourism industry, there’s this small cosmopolitan aspect...
...which I mean, at what point in movie history did the small American city cease to be represented as a cozy, leafy place preoccupied by ice cream socials, sweetly goofy teenage romances and Ford roadsters decorated with funny ("Oh you kid") slogans? When did the bleakness and perpetually bad weather set in? When did it become the poisonous appendix of our body politic, the place where the dopers and drinkers, the dismal and the dysfunctional, collect to dream of the escapes they never quite manage...
...Sept. 4, 1939, 29 British planes set out to bomb battleships in the German port of Wilhelmshaven. The weather wasn't very good. Some of them bombed Wilhelmshaven, but some of them got lost and unloaded on Esbjerg instead, where there weren't any battleships and which, more to the point, is in Denmark. A woman was killed while making dinner...
...Navy Women’s Intersectional in Annapolis, Md. last weekend and placed 12th in a field of 19 teams with 194 points. St. Mary’s took first place with 76 points, winning nine of 20 races. The participating squads had to contend with harrowing weather. “The conditions were very, very weird on Saturday,” freshman Meghan Wareham said. “In fact, they were borderline ridiculous.” Saturday started off with thick fog for the Harvard crew. Wareham and junior skipper Megan Watson helmed the A division boat, while...