Word: whirlwind
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...Pagan is low season for good reason. The relentless sun bakes its temple-strewn plain into a shimmering illusion of a chess game?if chess had 2,217 pieces, rather than 34. At midday even mad dogs take refuge, though not straw-hatted tourists on five-day whirlwind tours of Burma shuttling through their checklists of temples in air-conditioned comfort. The heat has its benefits, however. Summer is the time of flowers: thick bougainvillaea blooms in shockingly bright pink, jacarandas litter the paths with purple petals, and flame trees force starbursts of red against whitewashed temple walls...
Praise for Krinsky and her column is far from universal, however. There are those who would like to see “Sex and the (Elm) City,” and Krinsky herself, swept off the face of the Earth in a raging moral whirlwind of righteousness. Krinsky, however, treats her naysayers as almost an afterthought. She casually informed me that the conservative Yale Free Press (Yale’s answer to the Salient) had recently assessed her as “giving syphilis a bad name...
Birtwell’s move towards the big leagues occurred in whirlwind fashion last June when the Tigers plucked him in the 30th round with the 897th overall pick just two days before commencement. Two days after receiving his diploma, he was at mini-camp and by June 15, he was signed...
Feeling overwhelmed by application deadlines and college visits, Sabin describes her senior fall as a “whirlwind.” It was Harvard that brought her clarity...
Identified as a successful recruiter and leader, he soon moved up in the church hierarchy, eventually leading Bible talks of his own and spending 12 to 15 hours a week on church activities. By his senior year, his days became a whirlwind of working in the lab, going to Bible study, writing his thesis and sleeping for a couple of hours. “My family saw me plummet in terms of grades,” Lee says of his fall from straight A’s to failing marks...