Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hogan credits the Harvard batmen's slow start to the inherent problems of playing baseball in the Cambridge climate: prohibitive weather and ill-fit fields...
Just as you're getting the hang of this backing and forthing between two disembodied heads, here comes another jump cut, and a third face looms large on your screen. This one, unlike the other two, looks jowly and weather-beaten and could use a shave. What does this face have to do with the game, if indeed a game is still going on? And then the truth dawns: you are being shown the manager of one of the two teams, sitting presumably in one of the two dugouts. You are, in short, watching the manager watch the field...
...landlocked child-rearing (four daughters between them), they leave their marriages and decide, like the owl and the pussycat, to set off to sea in the 36-ft. double-ended motor-sailor Lord Jim. Throughout the chronicle blow dark gusts of both families' anger and disapproval--bad emotional weather that is the underlying motif of Chaplin's memoir, even when tropical sun shines on the romantic fugitives...
...current heat wave, the National Weather Service says there won't be much relief until late August. And from Joe Gilbo's perch high in the Capitol, the hot air may be felt for much longer than that...
...leisure suit would have been more appropriate. First of all, Ventura, the party's highest-ranking elected official and the repository of its presidential urges, didn't show. Bad weather and a bad back kept him in Minnesota. When they got him on speakerphone, instead of taking on Perot, Ventura promised not to run for President; his grab for power was more a wink and a nudge. He pitched Jack Gargan, a retired financial consultant, as party chairman, but then swaddled the endorsement in protestations that he wasn't telling the fiercely independent delegates how to vote. The room, which...