I first hear about Tarim on a cold December night in west London, where one of its three highest-ranking scholars is addressing a hall packed on one side with young men in tracksuits, jeans and prayer caps, and, on the other, with young women in colourful headscarves.
There was clean water and electricity and nutrition enough to see an eight-pound baby girl into the world on a cold December night in Texas.
But the warm, rich Fuji-apple crisp, made with caramelized vanilla beans, came with a doughy brown sugar and butter crumb topping, and did the trick very nicely on a cold December night.
At 57, he keeps to a strict vegan diet; on a cold December night in Cleveland, Mr. Kucinich padded about his kitchen in stocking feet -- no shoes are allowed in the Kucinich home -- and ate Chinese bean curd for dinner.
On a cold December night in 1758, a German farm-owner from Dresden stood resolute in the quiet, frosty air, spellbound at the image in the eyepiece of his telescope.
"It makes no difference that my interrogators are all dead," Edna O'Brien writes, in her new memoir, "Country Girl," of the persistence in her memory of Drewsboro, the house in Tuamgraney, Ireland, where she was born, on a cold December night in 1930 — after a difficult labor, her father presented her mother with shreds of Christmas goose, "half-cooked, pink and tough".
On a cold December morning, Spindler and I set off to find the marble tablet.
On a cold December afternoon, Yuki sat on a Manhattan-bound A train.
On a cold December morning in 1986, Gary Kelly woke with the worst hangover of his life.
Ramsay and I were at Soho House, the bar full of pink light, on a cold December evening, the sun setting on the Hudson.
When I started writing this, a line of teens, most of them black, were marching down the sidewalk on Myrtle Avenue, in Brooklyn, on a cold December afternoon.
