Word: weatherize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...very Hong Kong occasion. The weather was stifling, the air pollution was awful, and the crowd?carrying digital cameras and mobile phones, without which no self-respecting Hong Kong person is properly dressed?was polite and well mannered almost to a fault. But proud, too. "This is monumental," said an old man who came up to me outside the government offices. "There's nowhere else in the world that could have a parade like this, so peaceably...
...very Hong Kong occasion. The weather was stifling, the air pollution was awful, and the crowd?carrying digital cameras and mobile phones, without which no self-respecting Hong Kong person is properly dressed?was polite and well mannered almost to a fault. But proud, too. "This is monumental," said an old man who came up to me outside the government offices. "There's nowhere else in the world that could have a parade like this, so peaceably...
...level to his private apartment. He rarely admitted visitors to this area, as it was perfectly tailored to his pursuits: a study where he maintained voluminous correspondence (even using a machine called a polygraph to copy letters as he wrote them); a collection of scientific instruments for studying the weather and the stars; a greenhouse for cultivating new plants; and, most important, space for his vast library
...weather vane atop the east portico has an indicator that can be read from any of the front windows...
...good weather wasn't the only thing putting them at ease. This was the first time in six years that the Monticello Association, which comprises some 700 descendants of Jefferson, had held its annual reunion without a horde of reporters and photographers in attendance--or the extended family members who had triggered the controversy. The once obscure association, which administers the graveyard at Monticello, got caught in a media storm in 1998, after a DNA study confirmed to the satisfaction of many that a male member of Jefferson's family had fathered at least one child with a mulatto slave...