Less than 12 hours after Virginia Commonwealth pulled off one of the biggest upsets in NCAA tournament history, fans braved the cold to greet Shaka Smart and his Final Four-bound team.
They were greeted with the realities of the cold war soon into the trip when on the train they were awoken by east German border guards.
A small group of Afghans shivered in the cold waiting to greet relatives who were trying to return from exile.
Her statement extending the U.S. "nuclear umbrella" far beyond the threat to retaliate against a Soviet nuclear attack during the Cold War was greeted with a yawn by the media, which interpreted it as an election-day ploy to appear tough and pro-Israel.
Mr. Sullivan, who represents West Hartford, Bloomfield, Burlington and Farmington, said there had been "a crescendo of observations of kids in my town, including the young lady next door, waiting for the bus in the dark and the cold, whom I would greet each morning when I went out to get my newspaper.
I thought they were waiting for some one else, but they were people from the movement, waiting all night, in the cold and rain, to greet each one of us 700 with a warm embrace and food.
"Hundreds of Brooklynites stood for hours in the cold," The Times said, "waiting to greet the mayor and those who accompanied him".
Or maybe it was the cold stares and steely eyes that greeted the obvious foreigner.
"This is a real small town," said Ms. Taylor, 41, a window clerk who greeted her customers by name as they grumbled about the cold weather.
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.
