• "I grew up on about 110 acres in the middle of nowhere and spent mostly every day of the summer in a bathing suit, running around on the grass and having barbecues for dinner, " Ms. Kavanagh said.

    WSJ: Backyard Timeshare on the Lower East Side to Open Aug. 1

  • The relay will culminate in a 40-day tour of Scotland in the summer of 2014.

    BBC: Scotland

  • Here, the Spruce Brook runs crystal clear into the brown, mineral-infused waters of the Wild River, forming a multitude of pools that are perfect for whiling away a summer day in the mountains.

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  • The huts have been described by property agent Martin Lewthwaite as ideal for a family who wanted to sit on the beach and enjoy a summer's day in the picturesque resort.

    BBC: Abersoch beach hut

  • The NUT, in a joint campaign with the Nasuwt, has already announced a series of local strikes in the summer term, followed by a one-day national strike in the autumn.

    BBC: Teachers vow to press on with strike plan

  • Traffic is picking up: Each of its clinics saw, on average, 20 sick folks a day in October, an increase over 17 patients a day during the summer.

    FORBES: Paper? Plastic? Penicillin?

  • Of course, there's no way Saniewska could have known that the young woman she photographed on a summer day in 2005 would become the international superstar she is today.

    CNN: Before she was Gaga: The unseen photos

  • On average Baghdadis receive eight to 12 hours of national electricity a day, which makes life in the summer -- when temperatures easily reach 120 degrees -- almost unbearable.

    CNN: War-scarred Baghdad places little faith in U.S. election

  • The typical Bedouin soldier carried no more than a rifle, a hundred rounds of ammunition, forty-five pounds of flour, and a pint of drinking water, which meant that he could travel as much as a hundred and ten miles a day across the desert, even in summer.

    NEWYORKER: How David Beats Goliath

  • Ever the iconoclast, Ms. Philo deconstructed the sugary and shimmery sweetness of her chiffons and silks with a pair of the most ridiculed shoes in fashion, lined with the most counterintuitive fabric for a summer's day: mink.

    WSJ: Flat Out | Fashion Gets Comfy With Flats

  • His appearance to announce 10 dates at the O2 in the summer was a day that some thought would never come.

    BBC: Michael Jackson: Still King of Pop?

  • Sweeping strings evoke images of a beautiful sunny summer day, laying in the grass by a pond, complete with the chirps of crickets and the sound of wind through the trees.

    NPR: Clare & the Reasons: 'Science Fiction Man'

  • Or what if it happened before that, when he woke up in the morning and saw the day stretching out before him like a whole summer of blue afternoons?

    NEWYORKER: Getting Closer

  • Adidas advertises its skateboarding shoes only in skate magazines, and in August it introduced the Summer Skate Series in San Francisco, a one-day event staging contests for amateur street skaters.

    FORBES: Later, Skater

  • It was the fourth time since last summer that seven Americans have been killed on a single day in the war.

    NPR: 7 American Service Members Killed In Afghanistan

  • Other soldiers heard about the proxy law, and William and Bridey did three more weddings on a single day in the spring, and three in the summer after they graduated.

    NEWYORKER: The Proxy Marriage

  • Her sentencing comes a day after court papers were made public stating that in the summer of 2012, Ms. Huntley wore a hidden wire and recorded conversations with six state senators, a city councilman and two political aides.

    WSJ: Ex-State Senator Huntley Is Sentenced

  • Disturbed by the treatment of disabled people in institutions across the country in the 1950s and 1960s, Shriver began inviting disabled children to a summer day camp, called Camp Shriver, on her farm in Maryland.

    CNN: Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at 88

  • It all started nine months ago on a scorching summer's day in Lithuania, where the Cottagers beat FK Vetra in the third qualifying round, before moving on to west-central Russia for the qualifying play-off second leg against Amkar Perm.

    BBC: From the Cottage to the Continent

  • In the A plot, the nine-year-old half brothers Phineas and Ferb fill a summer day with some insanely ambitious project: making a building as high as the moon, a time machine, a roller-coaster.

    NEWYORKER: It��s Good Enough For Me

  • Some places in Pakistan suffer blackouts for up to 18 hours a day during the hot summer months.

    NPR: Major Issues In Pakistan's Upcoming Election

  • Even before this flow of offal, raw sewage so polluted the shores of Lake Michigan that in the summer of 1854 typhoid and dysentery claimed 60 lives a day in Chicago.

    FORBES: A most unromantic river

  • But I believe we will be able to give that assurance and I agree with you, it will be a good day when we can put all the brouhaha of last summer behind us in those areas.

    BBC: Breakfast with Frost

  • Come in summer -- for a day walk, week walk or to finish the whole lot (about eight weeks) -- and you might see the benign fin of a basking shark cruise by the shore.

    BBC: Walking Great Britain��s great coast

  • Before you attempt to eat and run, the fully licensed market (with extended opening hours from noon until11 pm every day this summer in honour of the Olympics and Paralympics) features a cocktail bar, urban beach (a sandpit for adults), hammocks, ping-pong tables and a live DJ.

    BBC: Gourmet street food in London

  • "Weather is a national obsession, " says Coral spokesman David Stevens, noting the firm has a tradition of offering odds on it snowing on Christmas Day or the temperature hitting 100 degrees in the summer.

    WSJ: As Games Open, Britons Excel at National Sport: Talking About Rain

  • My introduction to guns came on a hot summer day in 1963 when my father, 53 sent us all out of the house to have an afternoon of fun at a swimming pool in Aberdeen, Maryland.

    CNN: Roundup: Why we're still debating guns

  • And so, in the summer, Lincoln was a commuter, riding on horseback 4 miles a day down to his White House office.

    NPR: Living History At Lincoln's Summer Retreat

  • Enormously successful during its 40-day summer meet, Saratoga still looks a lot like it did when it opened in the little town in upstate New York.

    FORBES: New York Racing At A Crossroads...Again.

  • In One Day at Fenway, Kettmann uses a single Saturday afternoon game from last summer to illustrate the intensity of the Yankees-Sox rivalry.

    FORBES: Remaking The Red Sox

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