Word: winterize
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...midway point of the winter season, Harvard's two major women's teams--basketball and hockey--are in first place, while their male counterparts are struggling to make up ground in the standings...
...happy to report no one has gone mad on our farm this winter. We pile on stove wood and wait for spring, when the skies will open and rain frogs...
...Will someone please call Al Gore? I'd like to check on global warming's schedule for the rest of the winter...
...What's strange is that the apocalyptic cold we enjoy at the moment (the wind chill is 40 below zero outside as I write this), has fallen like a guillotine after an early winter that seemed unnaturally and irreversibly warm. What's going on? During the balmy holidays a few weeks ago, I fell into a vague sense of elegy about old-time winters, thinking they would never come again. I stored my goosedown parka in the closet with my summer clothes. I am practically sleeping in the parka...
...moment to discuss global warming, which of course violates the law of 99.9 percent continuum. But note, for what it is worth, that weather has always acted fierce and screwy from time to time. I look up Edmund Morris's description (in "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt) of the winter of 1886-87, which settlers called the Winter of the Blue Snow. At the end of January - the Dakota Indians' "Moon of Cold-Exploding Trees" - there came banging down the worst storm in frontier history: "Children wandering out of doors froze to death within minutes... Women in isolated ranches went...