Word: wind
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that time, amidst strong gusts of wind and intermittent rain, a small group of supporters gathered on the stairs, a turnout described as a "typical Harvard response" by one disappointed bystander...
...officer and recording secretary of the Mark Twain Committee on Weather (my first-year roommate informed me the old salt once said, "If you don't like the weather in New England, wait a minute"), I explained I looked outside in the morning, listened for wind, tried to judge the character of the clouds, and out I went. No charts, no tables, nothing written down to be contradicted...
Very nice, but that's more of a slogan than a vision, say killjoy Republicans like Brulte and Baugh. And even jealous Democrats suggest--anonymously--that Davis sees no further than to the bottom line of the latest poll that's dropped under his nose. Once he tests the wind, "he's great at splitting the difference and being in the middle for middle's sake rather than because that's where he wants to be," says one Democrat...
...fight each other, so when he was inaugurated and did not appoint barflies and dope dealers to office but donned a suit and white shirt and horn-rimmed glasses and managed to sound half-smart about a third of the time, his approval ratings turned three sheets to the wind and have stayed that way ever since...
...separate at-bats in different innings, sophomore Mairead McKendry and junior co-captain Deborah Abeles sent blasts off the right-field fence that stayed in the park only by inches. There was a tremendous wind blowing in from right on that day at Soldiers Field, and without that wind, both McKendry's and Abeles's hits would have been home runs...