Pedaling hard against the wind on a steep bike course, Nick Frey '09 depends both on athleticism and on tricks gleaned from his mechanical and aerospace engineering courses.
As the night wore on, the winds grew stronger, blowing twice as hard near the eye of the storm.
ARPA-E lacks the natural political constituency that areas like high-energy physics or the national labs have, so maintaining the funding could be hard as the winds shift on Capitol Hill.
That, too, is harder in the wind because wind carries its own abrasive energy.
But there seems to be a particular French affection for the place, and it's hard not to scent on the wind an escapist dream possessing those in the doldrums of Paris, of a poolside life in Los Angeles.
It's hard when the wind conditions are as bad as they were on Monday.
Ginny lets go first, leading them, pushing hard on the glass door against the wind, against what has become more than a blustery day, because in truth it is not yet spring, exactly; there is still the possibility of a freeze.
"This place plays hard when the wind is swirling around.
"It's a cabin he visits when he wants to hunker down to finish a book," the article continues, "and he's hard at work on The Winds of Winter".
"It's a cabin he visits when he wants to hunker down to finish a book," the article continues, "and he's hard at work on The Winds of Winter". Now, to be fair, it's not like Martin just hasn't put time into the book until now—he's been reportedly cranking out pages consistently for the past few years, but it just hasn't clicked.
It was time to erase images of Badminton, Gatcombe, dressage and stiff upper lip and instead jam the sunglasses on a bit harder, feel the wind in the hair and hang on.
