Word: wintered
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...rugged island has the climate of the Pacific Northwest, but without the flannel charm: freezing cold in the winter and damp in the summer, it is more suitable for salmon than people. Yet, today, flights to Sakhalin book up weeks in advance. Prices in the capital city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk are outlandishly high - $18 for a whiskey - and visitors (who usually come voluntarily now, unlike in Chekhov's time) have their pick of nightspots every bit as over-the-top as those found in Moscow...
...grew up in a “barefoot” house: At the front door, a shoe rack accompanied the welcome mat where family and guests alike kicked off footwear before entering. Even inside, we rarely wore house slippers; socks wore donned only out of necessity, perhaps in winter when the cold marble of the foyer was especially chilling. To wear shoes in the house was a breach of etiquette, for it crudely dragged in the dirt of the outside world. Nowhere was this more emphasized than in our prayer room: “Cleanliness is next to Godliness...
...three thousand miles away from my California home, I feel particularly distanced from my suburban life when I consider my newly formed footwear habits. Moving into my freshman dorm forced me into fuzzy slippers to combat the Boston winter and into shower flip-flops for the communal bathrooms of Stoughton South. These Cantabridgian customs were not so disturbing: I maintained the indoor-outdoor divide, rarely violating my ingrained sense of hygiene...
Fifty years later, when TIME editors Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy visited Graham, they saw that the man who has been on countless magazine covers had only three hung on his office wall: the TIME cover from 1954, a 1992 TIME cover called A CHRISTIAN IN WINTER, and THE PRODIGAL SON, our last Graham cover, with his son Franklin, from 1996. Nancy and Michael's book, The Preacher and the Presidents, was conceived after they covered the 2004 election. It is the inspiration for a one-hour ABC documentary on Graham, hosted by Charles Gibson, airing Friday, Aug. 10. Gibbs...
...first met Billy Graham in the winter of 2006, when after long negotiations, we were invited to talk to him about the one topic in his much examined life that he rarely discussed: his intense private and public relationships with every President going back to Harry Truman. He wasn't doing many interviews anymore, especially since Ruth was now quite ill and he didn't like leaving her side. But he was willing to share some final lessons and confessions as his life and ministry began to wind down...