"I can never get over the fact that they built this whole darn thing in one summer, and it took me two-and-a-half summers to repair it, with all the materials and technology we have today".
In that last half-summer of 1925 he took 73 wickets at 18 each, and word was around that a gale was blowing.
A half-dozen summers after the dancer, I fell for a German Lutheran pastor in Brussels.
But these days I spend half my summer on the British east coast.
Every year, my son spends half the summer in Ukraine with my parents.
The relatively cool first half of summer in the Northeast and Upper Midwest has had far-reaching effects.
The first half of summer featured an artsy bouncy castle; now there's a roller rink and a Uniqlo pop-up store.
Half a summer into what he expects to be a long-term affiliation with the Surf Lodge, the chef had already developed paternalistic feelings toward the place.
This innings at Lord's, though, was different class, a six hour masterpiece compiled from the wreckage of 102 for seven when half a summer's work, and a series win, were in danger of being thrown away.
It hasn't hurt real estate agents that Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton have taken to the place, spending their last half-dozen summers in the neighborhoods of Edgartown and Chilmark, near their friends Vernon Jordan and the actors Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen.
A half-dozen summers ago Mr. Pizzarelli, 50, and Ms. Molaskey, 48, known in some quarters as the Nick and Nora of cabaret, were planning to cap off an appearance at the Litchfield Jazz Festival in Connecticut with yet another house-hunting jaunt to the Hamptons.
