The fishermen, the laborers, the craftsmen who made camp at Valley Forge -- they weathered a hard winter.
Even by harsh Alaska standards, this was a hard winter, as a storm track shifted north and stayed.
The slaves and the freedmen who rode an underground railroad, seeking the light of justice under the cover of night -- they weathered a hard winter.
Kern County, for one, had seen its population swell by more than 60 percent in the last five years, and although health officers had cleaned up the squatter camps that once plagued the area, many migrants were still living in slums with inadequate sewers and drains, ramshackle houses, and litter-strewn dirt roads that would turn to mud after a hard winter rain.
Unless you believe a player is fine in May but succumbs to fatigue a month later, it's hard to blame the winter break.
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Hard to find any nail-biting about a cold winter propping up already higher-than-normal gas prices at Energen Corp (nyse: EGN - news - people ).
"I've worked pretty hard over the winter and... it's a great feeling to get those rewards, " Harrison said.
Across Sweden, Midsummer is greeted with an exuberance that's hard to understand unless you've experienced the cold and darkness of a Swedish winter.
Snowbound in winter, flooded in spring and drought ridden in the summer, it's a hard life in Badakshan.
He said a snowberry bush that "predicted" hard winters in 2009 and 2010 had shown signs that the coming winter would also be cold and snow-filled.
Of course there's an exception to the winter discounts: unless you're extremely flexible, it's usually hard to find a deal between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
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