That year was the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking baseball's color barrier, and during a wonderful (yet cold) ceremony at Shea Stadium on April 15, Commissioner Emeritus Bud Selig, with my mother, Rachel, and President Bill Clinton by his side, announced that my father's number 42 would be retired throughout the game in perpetuity.
I was lucky enough to say goodbye to Mick, holding his hand as he died; I had no intention of swapping that memory for a cold, ugly ceremony.
Joseph Stalin's picture was banned from the many posters in the center of the city, and Lenin's Tomb -- the reviewing stand for so many Cold War ceremonies -- was covered by a billboard.
Indeed, Belichick has, over the years, famously eschewed sentimentality, cutting big-name, expensive players to make room for cheaper near-replacements and getting rid of fan favorites with what can appear to be a cold lack of ceremony.
The winter of 1946 47 was exceptionally cold, and the ceremony was held out of doors.
To avoid being too hot or too cold during the ceremony, many people will have their wedding during the spring or fall when the climate is milder.
Sadly, there were no national anthems, so much a part of the soundtrack of those resentful Cold War medal ceremonies.
His first wife, Abigail, died after catching a cold at the inauguration ceremony of his successor, Franklin Pierce.
Imagine if you had come last year!' " On Friday night, he will stand more than three hours in the cold for the opening ceremony.
On the front porch of a house a block from the cafe, where a Racer employee lived, cases of beer were stacked on Wednesday afternoon — a cold one handed, in ceremony or sacrament, to new mourners as they approached.
Dr. Edward F. Aulisi, the hospital's chairman of neurosurgery, later confirmed in a statement that Mr. Kennedy had had a seizure, which he said had probably been brought on by "simple fatigue" after a long morning in the cold at the inaugural ceremony.
