Word: winterize
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...devoted his op-ed column to a stirring remembrance of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, many of whom are now forgotten to history. He reserved his highest praise for an obscure signer from New Jersey, John Hart. Read carefully: "[Hart] was forced to flee in the winter of 1776, at the age of 65, from his dying wife's bedside. While he hid in forests and caves, his home was demolished, his fields and mill laid waste, and his 13 children put to flight. When it was finally safe for him to return, he found his wife...
...takes about six months to work its way though the pipeline from the derrick to your Dodge Caravan, making stops at refineries, distribution networks and retailers before winding up in the gas tank. By then, U.S. consumers could be facing a new energy crisis - how to keep warm this winter with heating oil and natural gas prices on the rise - that will make this summer's vacation frustrations a distant memory...
...mother--and readily accepts his responsibility as a role model. He's single, but he doesn't run with a bar-hopping pack. During the season, he lives west of Boston, drives himself to the ballpark and is unfailingly courteous to fans and free with autographs. During the winter, he's home in the Dominican Republic, working out four hours a day or busy with another project at the church-and-school complex he built for his impoverished hometown, Manoguayabo. "I like to be better," he says, and he means in all things...
Before I began my first year, my family and I spent a few days in Boston. (I am originally from southern California and my mother insisted that it would take me at least three days to find a proper winter coat.) In the hotel lobby, I struck up a conversation with a 1998 Harvard graduate and he told me the same thing that everyone else had told me in the weeks and months leading up to school: They would be the best four years of my life...
...bring mittens. It can get a bit chilly in the winter, and when it snows you'll want to participate in snowball fights without freezing your fingers...