| 单词 | December |
| 例句 | For the rest of December, Endurance picked her way through the ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z But I know how you been dreamin’ green things as fur back as last December. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z It was thought that he died several days earlier, which would have made December 12 perhaps the last full day of his life. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z We chose December 16 to show that the African had only begun to fight, and that we had righteousness — and dynamite — on our side. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Always, though, there was this truth: that she came from the sea, flung in by that fearsome December storm years before. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Who knew what might happen now that a December storm had started? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Your rooms are prepaid through December first, but every morning we charge the previous day’s incidentals, like room service and pet cleaning fees. Today the payment was denied.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z January 21 then deftly passes the puck to his teammate December 20—wow! what’s he doing out there?!—who shrugs off the onrushing defender May 17 and slides a cross-crease pass back to January 21. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z There were tryouts in early December and I was given the only solo spot. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And to make things worse, when Captain Newport leaves in December, he takes a lot of our food stores with him, saying he and his sailors will need them for the long voyage home. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The soldiers hold them back, "—by firing squad, to be carried out four days from today, on December twenty-seventh at six p.m.. Ocean Standard Time, in an undisclosed location—" Four days. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z So far as Lupita was concerned, the rest of December was a sad time, a period of beloved Mexican holidays she missed observing. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z It snowed all that week, ending a white November and beginning a whiter December. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z On December 2, we were all found guilty of what Judge Rumpff defined as “statutory communism” — as opposed to what he said “is commonly known as communism.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was confident of passing the final exams in December, so I began mapping out my future plans. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z On December 19 Smith felt the horse was ready to be tested. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z For no reason but to irritate me, we get a heat wave in December. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In December 1924, Stone gave Hoover the job he longed for. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “We’ll put them back out when your grandparents visit in December.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In early December, Bush had brought together a small group to act as the bomb project’s civilian overseers: Conant, Briggs, Compton, Urey, and Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then the word went out that the entire camp would close without fail by December 1. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z On a mild afternoon in early December I am at the store going over inventory orders with Margaret, the sharp-eyed accounts manager. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z At a mass meeting in late December, Ann lashed out against those who termed the boycott an example of “black lawlessness.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But he observed them each year, and he remembered Lily’s earliest Decembers. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Sunday evening, December 11 The capital We just got back from marching in the opening ceremony for the World’s Fair, and my feet are really hurting. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their faces, bathed in the attenuated December light from the tall windows, appeared quiet and even faintly reverent. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Dad asks about the November/December study-away program, and it takes me a minute to realize he’s talking to me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “The Jackson Five concert is in December. That’s four months from now. So when Papa gives us our allowance, you write how much money you’re putting in by your name next to ‘week number one.’ P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Piper remembered a wintry day in Chicago last December, when the three of them had landed in Millennial Park on their first quest. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was born on 27 December 1571, but when he was only 2 his father went off to fight in the Netherlands, and Katherine followed, leaving the infant in the care of his grandfather. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I was afraid December would come before I got a hole big enough to lie in. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z My toes curled at the thought of crossing the icy floorboards on a dark December morning. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “December first or second, or maybe the third.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “You’re in here doing a back float. Does that mean you’ve spent all the money? December first is only three days away.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z One December afternoon when An Yi and I came home from a walk, we saw a big crowd gathered in the middle of our alley. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Letters to the Editor” filled a whole page of the school newspaper’s December edition. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Darkness came early, as it always does in December, but the pageant of arriving revelers continued. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The fifteenth of December, when they sounded, the lead brought up sand. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In early December, I was informed that a meeting with de Klerk was set for the twelfth of that month. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re starting a big unit on ancient cultures that will last until December. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z We would be moving to Puerto Plata with the children by the first of December, opening up a little store at the front of the house. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Following the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, some 120,000 people of Japanese descent, almost all of whom were loyal American citizens, were placed in “war relocation camps.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In December, three months into Executive Pre-Professional, I had stress vomiting for the first time. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z December V\\ It was the sound of the refrigerator rumbling back to life that galvanized Alex. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Her intention was to spend November and December shuttling between the Italian islands, in some off-season rental, completely alone. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was also marvelously warm, almost summery, the way December days can be sometimes in southern California. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z On December 26, the Americans launched a surprise attack on a Hessian camp in Trenton, New Jersey. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z On December 12, a meeting between the Housing Authority board and tenants turned into a four-hour shouting match as many black residents vented long-simmering frustrations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “I was very moved,” he told me when we met for the first time in December 2008, a few days after his birthday. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In the second week of December Professor McGonagall came around as usual, collecting names of those who would be staying at school for Christmas. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z As Ms. Fender had announced, I was now trumpet section leader, totally focused on our next performance in December. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In this way, things went on until near December. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z When Horace’s first child was born in December, he named him Erasmus. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z December bolds us all in its thrall; not even the fires in the stoves and grates can loosen its icy grip. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Ebony magazine, for example, ran an article in December 2006 entitled “Where Have the Black Men Gone?” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Beagle lifted anchor on December 27, 1831, with seventy-three sailors on board, clearing a gale and tacking southward toward Tenerife. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z On December 9,1938, under the new name The Campbell Playhouse, the Mercury team presented a drama based on the novel Rebecca. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He could remember the Decembers back to when he had become, well, probably a Four. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, of course. We will be out by December thirty-first, maybe earlier. Again, I’m sorry, Mr. Beiderman. I hope you have a happy holi—” Papa stopped and looked down at the phone screen. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “Well," he agreed, “it’s almost December. Lots going on." Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In Africa my papa loved the dusty dry winds of the Harmattan, which blew down from the Sahara Desert every December or January. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “The last editor’s meeting of the year is on December twenty- first,” Missus Stein continues. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In December 1776 Washington’s battered army, driven from New York, was scattered along the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In December 1891 Burnham received a proposal from a tugboat manufacturer arguing the case for steam launches at the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Well into December, individuals were still succumbing to the fever, and Thomas Jefferson was worrying over which houses were safe to enter. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Nearly a decade later, in December 1939, the acclaimed newspaper reporter Ernie Pyle stopped at La Tuna prison, near El Paso, Texas. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Then, in December 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and it was like Turner Station had won the lottery: the demand for steel skyrocketed, as did the need for workers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Are you still planning to visit in December?” he asks. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It means not being able to buy a tomato in December. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In late December, the grand jury added new charges to the Ellsberg indictment. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She and old Marty were drinking Tom Collinses--in the middle of December, for God's sake. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z His seventh symphony received its premiere at a Wagner memorial concert in December 1884, its second movement, Adagio, being in the form of a funeral lament for Wagner. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His efforts, however, turned up nothing—until December, when he learned from an inspection of tax records that Chris had given away his college fund to OXFAM. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Shackleton had estimated a rate of travel that would put him on the continent by the end of December, but by Christmas they still hadn’t passed the Antarctic Circle. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z On Tuesday, December 17, when we had one more day to go before vacation, five of us entered the cafeteria. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On December 10, it invaded the Philippines and seized Guam. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I was surprised at this announcement, which Bunny had made at the beginning of December, especially since the two of them had been out of sorts for over a month, Henry in particular. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He would be giving a lecture at Zurich University on December 18. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Speaking of the Zooms, Rabbi Gold has explained all the parts of the service to me so I’ll know what to expect on December 4. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z On December 23, William was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel and told to prepare for the trip. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Even in the freezing December night, beads of perspiration rolled off Papa Will’s forehead. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The baby, Charles Waring Darwin, was born on December 6,1856. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z King traveled to Oslo, Norway, and on December 10, 1964, delivered his acceptance speech. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z On the second day of December 1933, it began to rain in Seattle as it had never rained before and has never rained since. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I went to New York City in December for Malcolm X’s reading of final additions to the manuscript, to include the latest developments. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They paid for all three in full through December first. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Not long after, he went up to Cambridge, and in December spent Christmas with friends. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z For the next two weeks, as the time for the December Ceremony approached, The Giver would transfer every memory of courage and strength that he could to Jonas. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, sir. I am in training. By December, I will be a full customs officer.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z December 30 No More First day back after Christmas break, I know I’m supposed to wear everything new. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z On December 1st, Thomas Garrett wrote one of his characteristic letters to William Still in Philadelphia: I write to let thee know that Harriet Tubman is again in these parts. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z To make it clear—were you, in any way, involved with the holdup and murder that occurred on the 22nd of December? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z But of course back in December I had never heard of Studio TV-15, Mom didn’t get her postcard from The $20,000 Pyramid until a couple of weeks ago. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Dogs are being adopted 11 percent faster in December than in any other month. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “The convoy leaves out of Port Authority at two PM on Monday, December twelfth,” Mr. Flynn said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Despite multiple referrals from commanding officers for psychiatric evaluation, he remained in combat for seven months before his “crying outbursts” and “uncommunicative withdrawal” resulted in an honorable discharge in December 1966. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z On that first weekend in December there must have been twenty or twenty-five boats getting ready to leave. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as the ice lingered in October, so did the phlegm of December—which explained the enormous relief brought on by the first three days of 1941. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “If it’s cold like this in August, what’s it going to be like in December?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The part ran up into the bald spot, like a drained marsh in December. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Wednesday evening, December 16 Here I am crying again, ruining my new diary book Minerva gave me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When December 24 finally arrived, time seemed to stand still. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z A week before one of her regular December visits, Alisha called to say that she'd be bringing along a guest, someone named Bonnie. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z From the lowering December sky handfuls of snowflakes were falling, but as soon as they came to earth they turned to ice. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Fadi skimmed over the page and saw that the results of the competition would be announced December first, and the awards ceremony would take place in San Francisco the following week or so. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z In late December, President Johnson and his top advisors sat around the table in the White House Cabinet Room. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Early on the morning of December 2, 1942, two figures crunched over the frozen snow covering the campus of the University of Chicago. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Each newchild was given to his assigned parents at the Ceremony that would take place in December. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z There were more than a dozen dockers at the track, yet not one had seen Seabiscuit in a single workout since Santa Anita opened in December. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Working nights and weekends, she finished the job in late December. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He could be upgraded in the Nurturing Center, Father said happily, now that he slept; he could be officially named and given to his family in December, which was only two months away. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The Americans had planned to launch the first satellite into orbit as part of the International Geophysical Year, a cooperative global science project that ran from July 1957 to December 1958. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Burnham met the eastern architects Monday evening, December 22, at the Players Club, for dinner. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The surprise attack—at dawn on Sunday, December 7, 1941—killed over twenty-four hundred Americans and put most of the Pacific Fleet out of action. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Underneath were pictures labeled “Fluffy—June 21,” “Muffin—December 14”...My vision blurred. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I sat in the jet this afternoon, flying home from New Orleans, and looked out the window to the patterns of a December countryside far below. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the middle of December, a week before winter break, when it all got really ugly. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z While the United States was still reeling from the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 9, 1941, under an order of Stalin, the first of Marina Raskova’s aviation regiments was created. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She was due at Dulles Airport at 11 A.M. on December twenty-third. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z On December 16, 1918, three hundred women marched down to Lafayette Square in Washington, DC, dropped pages of Wilson’s speeches into a cauldron there, and set them on fire. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “The December twelfth convoy. We have our passes and our reservations.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Friday, December It Alex would have preferred to keep Julie home on Friday, but they needed the two bags of food. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z McCandless was thrilled to hear from Jan. “I am so glad to find you both alive and sound,” he exclaimed in a letter dated December 9, 1991. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Impossibly, like roses blooming in the heart of December, she said, “That’s past.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z After the two weeks, we appeared for our preparatory examination on December 19 at the Drill Hall in Johannesburg, a military structure not normally used as a court of justice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On December 18, less than two weeks after Pearl Harbor, the members of the S-l Committee met again in Washington. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It’s December and it’s freezing and we can see our breath. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Remembered On a bright December morning long ago . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z In December 1957, the United States made its first attempt to put a satellite into orbit with its Vanguard. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t want to hear about our outing with Miss Marva Hendrix, that we’d seen the Jackson Five billboard, or that they were coming to New York City in December. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z On December 10, 1869, the men in Wyoming granted women there the right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “My dad. His lawyers froze the account. We can’t spend any more money until we see a judge on December sixteenth.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Less than a month later, on December 5, 1941, Hitler decided to postpone his attempt to seize Moscow until spring. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Okay, guys. Here’s the deal,” he told us in December. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z They were like so many of the adults around us, content to pretend that all was well as we began classes at Central High on December 2. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Langley put all available resources behind the $80 million project in 1960, putting the final pieces in place just before December 1960, the originally scheduled date for the first suborbital mission. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z On November 19 of that year, a ship carrying 500 Maori armed with guns, clubs, and axes arrived, followed on December 5 by a shipload of 400 more Maori. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The 31 capsules for January birth dates were placed in a large bin, then the 29 February capsules, and so on up to December’s 31 capsules. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama wore her black dress without her hat this time, and the breeze, mild for early December, ruffled her pressed hair. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The state redrew their indictment and we were back in court in early December. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In December, my mother and I were transferred from Ghetto B, the section where we had been living, to Ghetto A, the area now designated for workers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Finally, in the beginning of December, Úrsula burst into the workshop all upset. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z On the first Friday in December the ninth edition of The Landry News was distributed—over three hundred and seventy copies. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z In December the exposition experienced its first death: a man named Mueller at the Mines Building, dead of a fractured skull. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But the students decided they’d like to adopt the idea for their final project, due in December. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Then, to everyone’s surprise, the documents were ready in early December, and we shuttled back to South Carolina. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Though it was December, it rained as though it was June. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z By December I was so far behind in my work that, pausing one night to begin a new episode of Breaking Bad, I realized that I might fail my PhD. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It happened December of freshman year, in the middle of a pep rally. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The squash turned my mouth cold and wet as December and my body went Ah. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z On December 22 the chairman of the California Horse Racing Commission gathered reporters together and issued the board’s decree: Red Pollard was banned from riding all horses, including stakes mounts, until January 1,1938. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Thinking, still, as he wheeled his bike into its narrow port beside the door, he realized that frightened was the wrong word to describe his feelings, now that December was almost here. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z One after another, five more French cities held fairs, until the last one of the year ended in Troyes in December, and then the cycle started again. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The rest of the Morning Announcements were as exciting as December drizzles, and maybe Mr. Guareschi knew that, because he said he wanted to conclude by reading a lovely note, from Mrs. Sidman. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Looking back, what they now call the December Riot seems to have been inevitable. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “If it’s December first, I can hook you up.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z My feet were freezing in the sandals that in my humble opinion no one should have to wear in northern Illinois in the middle of December. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z She didn’t expect much from the process, so she was startled when, in December 2005, an eighteen-wheeler pulled up in front of their apartment with a gleaming white trailer in tow. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I went home at the beginning of December, just in time to finish grade one. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Then the state legislature handed over all emergency powers to the governor and adjourned until December. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In December of that year, the group learned that the British intended to seize a cache of ammunition being stored by a colonial militia near the entrance to Portsmouth Harbor, fifty miles north of Boston. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At 1800 hours on December 18, someone threw the master switch, and the Sunbeams began to cook. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Elementary and middle schools could put the January through April-born students in one class, the May through August in another class, and those born in September through December in the third class. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The cast last performed Good Boys in December. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Is this the same guy flamed out near Jacksonville in December?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On December 21, the day of the winter solstice, something happened to Frightful. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z First he had written Miss Lavinia—Johnny knew he was dancing attendance on her—a rude note bluntly declining her invitation to a frolic which on the fifteenth of December would follow a military concert. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z On December 9, 1917, the National Woman's Party hosted a dinner honoring the eighty-nine women who had served time in the District Jail or the Occoquan Workhouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Best of all, he informed them, the nation’s capital was healthy enough for Congress to meet there in December, as planned. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Sasha returned to school in December, on the Monday after the Thanksgiving break. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Sunday, December 9 Dear Little Book, I have been trying to reflect, but I can’t come up with anything. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On December 14, weary of paddling, he hauled the canoe far up the beach, climbed a sandstone bluff, and set up camp on the edge of a desolate plateau. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a golden age, those few weeks in December and January. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Our birthday, in December, caught me off guard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The last two Hamburg gigs, in November and December of 1962, involved another 90 hours of performing. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z December is rarely bitter cold in South Alabama during the day, but at night the temperatures can drop, a dramatic reminder that it's winter, even in the South. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In December 1903, the Wright Brothers had barely gotten off the ground and had flown shakily for 120 feet. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z December 21: The United States deports 249 people that it has accused of being anarchists. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “It will be excellent advertising for our Great Tomb Project in December.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She was alone in a bone-cold bus station on December 23, listening to a drunk guy and scraping the last of someone’s blood from underneath her nails with the corner of her bus ticket. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Smallpox was recorded to have appeared on the island of Hispaniola in November or December 1518. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The amendment was ratified by the states and became part of the Constitution in December 1865. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Lizza and Mary were planning a party to surprise David—the ninth of December. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z That December, Elizebeth became the newest recruit in the Rum War—and the Coast Guard’s secret weapon. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Late in December, Seabiscuit overstepped in a workout and kicked himself in the left foreleg, dinging the suspensory ligament. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z December t “I have some very sad news to convey,” Father Mulrooney informed the handful of boys that made up the student body of St. Vincent de Paul Academy. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z December 25 What If Brother Quang asks what if Father escaped to Cambodia and is building an army to go back and change history? Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It was December, and the brutal heat that was the only real constant for months had finally broken the week before. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z December ended; January came and passed; February began. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z When I wake up on Wednesday, December 21, I am happy that this year is practically over and that it’s almost time to tear off the last month of the calendar. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z One day in early December, I came home from basketball practice and Gay said, “Check the answering machine.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z All the strands of this story—the accident, attention science, the law, and Reggie Shaw—came together on December 11, 2008. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Five weeks later, on December 20—381 days after the boycott had started—two federal marshals arrived at the federal courthouse and served written notices on city officials that Montgomery’s buses had to be integrated. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z That was the news that came over Radio Mullah in late December 2008. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In December of that year he goes down with pneumonia, and dies of it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was no clue—via Purple or anything else—stating when or where the attack would occur, except that it would likely be very soon, in December. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “If I go up to Bloomington for a week this summer, I should be able to finish by December.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z In December, though he lacked an official mandate to do so, Burnham secretly mailed inquiries to five men, “feeling confident that I would carry my point.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was warm out for the first of December and a lot of people were out on their stoops when I reached the neighborhood. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z On December 7, 1776, he set the dockyard on fire, wiping out 20 tons of hemp used to make rope, 6 tons of ordinary rope, and about 6,000 feet of large-size rope. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z On December 30, however, when results from Virginia and South Carolina revealed that Adams had captured one electoral vote in each of these southern states, Adams ceased erupting and started celebrating. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z On that skyblue December day, her wild, curly hair had escaped in wisps in the car wind. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As our paper chain gets more and more attention, the word also spreads about the Chokecherry kid who is racing toward an unlikely bar mitzvah on December 4. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Sincerely, Jack Will December 26 Dear Jack, Thank you so much for your letter. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z School closed for Christmas break in early December. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z But his mind was still on December and the coming Ceremony. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The final gathering on Valentine farm took place on a brisk December night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A few months back, in December, he was actually paralyzed—he couldn’t move at all for a few days. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In December 1511 she made an order for a set of stringed instruments for the Ferrara court which, Holman convincingly suggests, were ‘new design’ violins, invoiced to a maestro Sebastian of Verona. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z At four o’clock in the afternoon, Thursday, December 7, the last monkey was killed and bagged, and people began deconning out. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By late December, when Shin and Park were planning their escape, Shin’s winter-season pants had holes in the knees and in the seat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But not last December—December 17, 1941, the last day she had lived in New Orleans. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He had been exiled in the county jail for seventy-seven days—the last part of September, all of October and all of November, the first week of December in jail. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Anyway, the new one is coming out the weekend of December 4, and Pam wants me to buy advance tickets—there’s only one theater in Chokecherry, and when it sells out, that’s it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Netscape’s first commercial browser—which could work on an IBM PC, an Apple Macintosh, or a Unix computer—was released in December 1994, and within a year it completely dominated the market. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z By December 1942, as another harsh Russian winter began to settle in, the Soviets managed to get the German army surrounded at Stalingrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Today is Sunday. This very Friday, December twenty-first, is the winter sol- stice. “ The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Wind frolicked the skirt and made the scarecrow sway—made it seem a creature forlornly dancing in the cold December field. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The crime, clueless and apparently motiveless, had taken place Saturday night, December 19, at the Walker home, on a cattle-raising ranch not far from Tallahassee. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It was already the end of December, and Roberto, my older brother, was the only one working. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z About the Saturday in December that Bunny ran around the house at five in the morning, yelling “First snow!” and pouncing on our beds? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Bundles of Christmas gifts prepared by foster parents’ associations began arriving in early December. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z In December, we began a new round of secret bilateral talks with the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sunday night, December 1 Palomino stayed last night—on a cot in the munitions room, of course! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For a while Leslie had been able to keep two sleeping bags in the stronghold, but around the first of December her father noticed their absence, and she had to take them back. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z When we arrived, on December 31, it was eighty-five degrees, and the Santa Ana winds whipped against the rickety walls of our motel room. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He printed a notice from the defense authority telling Japanese nationals on San Piedro that as of December 14 they could no longer ride the ferries. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was December 7, 1941, a Sunday I will never forget. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It had taken the better part of a December morning. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z For instance, there’s an international festival coming up in December. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Finally, finally, finally, in the middle of December, we drove down to New York City in my father’s new pickup, my father, my mother, and me. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Amaranta Úrsula returned with the angels of December, driven on a sailor's breeze, leading her husband by a silk rope tied around his neck. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z December and January are cold and wet, but, somehow, that’s their right. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the night of December 18, the lights in Hao Lo prison suddenly went out. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z While Fremont was a balmy sixty-five degrees in December, San Francisco, sitting next to the foggy Pacific Ocean, could be closer to thirty. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z A year later, one raw December day, Dr. Prince was in the chandlery again. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Telegrams and phone calls kept pouring into Bobby through the end of November and the first weeks of December. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Behind her back, the NSA secretly took charge, overseeing the pickup and delivery of the collection on December 17, 1970. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On December 29, Rey writes, “Today, my superior issued a certificate of mental disturbance, reporting general delirium and requesting specialized care in an asylum.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “December 6 “Everybody gathered for the opening of the sawmill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z December 18 Dear Mr. Tushman, I am very, very sorry for punching Julian. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z By December 9, the hospital staff have given Theo a dire prognosis. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was early December, and patches of ice alternated with drifts of brown leaves. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z On the afternoon of December 18, 1959, young Mrs. Johnson was expecting guests; three women of the neighborhood were coming by for coffee and cake and perhaps a game of cards. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z A more serious blow came at the end of December. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In late December 1938, in the German capital of Berlin, a chemist named Otto Hahn set up a new experiment in his lab. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Wood became repossessed of his manic energy, and worked his team as hard as ever in the chilly haze of rain that persisted into December. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z On December 11, a vast force, including eleven destroyers and light cruisers, launched an invasion attempt. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z By December he had returned to his parents’ house in Alipore, carried through the courtyard and up the red clay stairs like a corpse, hoisted on the shoulders of his four brothers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In effect, the TEC would be the government between December 22 and the election on April 27. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Love always, Charlie December 30, 1991 Dear friend, The day after I wrote to you, I finished The Catcher in the Rye. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The MIA network was unveiled in detail at a mass meeting on December 12. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z In December 1926, Peace suspected that his wife, who was white, was poisoning him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Monday, December 21 I am a little better now. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Waterman flew to the Kahiltna Glacier in December 1979 to begin the ascent but called it off after only fourteen days. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I found her at lunch, in the library, at The Table, the one that, for a few golden weeks in December—after the concert, before the movie—I’d dared to think of as ours. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “Was. She died in December of last year.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z There were thousands and thousands of them until December, when they suddenly vanished. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The leafless branches of the trees surrounding the prison were skeletal against the iron-hued December sky. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “Here’s the first line: ‘I was born to the beast on December 12, 1946.’” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Aureliano Buendía left his room in December and it was sufficient for him to look at the porch in order not to think about war again. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Gulping in long, sweet lungfuls of it, cold damp December air, smelling of petrol and coal smoke and freedom. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The defense took place in December, in a small, simply furnished room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was December 1990, and I was traveling to Berlin with the re- porters covering secretary of state James A. Baker III. The Berlin Wall had been breached a year earlier, on November 9, 1989. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Julia Grant died on December 14,1902, at the age of seventy- six, and lies alongside her husband in a tomb in New York City. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Robert Oppenheimer poses at the front of his classroom at Princeton University, December 17, 1947. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On December 7, 1941, the Axis power Japan surprised the United States with an air attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in the territory of Hawaii. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Sometime that December I had started dropping the “Aunt” out of her name, mostly because I knew that it annoyed her. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z In spite of this, Tycho was not to be distracted from his life’s work, and was making observations from Helsingborg Castle by the end of December that year. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z If they hadn’t come to a plea agreement by then, the case would go to trial December 8. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Papa, can we go to Madison Square Garden in December?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Throughout the entire month of that battle—from the middle of December to the middle of January—I did not see Danny once. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z One day early in December, I cycled over to Herman’s lab expecting another charming yet totally incomprehensible conversation. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z A letter finally arrived in early December that announced the pairings. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Finally, by the middle of December, he finds some models, and he paints a head of a “splendid old man” in profile, filling up most of the canvas, a different style for him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z December 24 Ours is a silent Christmas Eve. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It is early on a December morning as we walk from the orphanage to the docks. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Not until late December did they take Male to St. Paul’s Church to be baptized and named Francis after his father’s father and the lovely saint of Assisi. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In December, 184.9, most of the speeches made in Congress dealt 'with the need for a more stringent fugitive slave law. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z When Elizebeth and her team stacked up the twenty-eight Enigma messages they had in December 1942, they discovered that the first column had far more O’s in it than anything else. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He also places Mr. King in the drugstore with him on the 22nd of December. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s held the first Saturday of December every year, and I think this is the fifth time it’s been put on. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Then, on December 5, a little more than two weeks before Midsummer’s Day, Endurance set sail from Grytviken. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The days that December were long and cold. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “This one is dated December fifth, the other was November twenty- third. Shall I read?” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z On December 21, in the early morning hours, he stopped breathing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Yet between April 1958 and December 1961 several hundred chemicals were screened at the Orlando laboratory for a possible sterilizing effect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “In December of ’44 you moved to Amity Harbor?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z On a cold, clear day in early December I found myself downtown in some Wall Street guy’s conference room for my Yale interview. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But by December 1942, her team had a total of twenty-eight messages. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z For a moment he panicked that somehow it was December 13 and they’d missed the convoy by a day. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z When the Wright brothers made their famous first powered flight on December 17, 1903, aviation fever seized the world. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z At the Royal Society Meeting there was no hint that anyone at King’s had mentioned ions since the confrontation with Francis and me in early December. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z On December 1, 1790, Seneca chiefs sent a letter to George Washington. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Just before the track’s season had begun in December, Pollard’s old colleague Tommy Luther had sat down for coffee in the Santa Anita golf club with a handful of other riders. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And suddenly it was December again, and she had the school in her spell. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z All too soon, it was December 31 and we were driving to the airport. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On December 17, while listening to a radio play, Sourmelina removed her earphones and announced that she was having pains. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On the first Saturday of December—the month that Lucas was coming home—I waited for Lil outside the library after the deliveries. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z On the eighth day of December the Father above took my father and took my mother. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z His estimate came in for ridicule when Stassen presented the task force findings to the National Security Council on December 22. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Since it was December, Aru had to rub some frost off the latch in order to open it. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z To the boosters, that story was music to their ears, further confirmation that when the middle of December rolled around they would be on their way to Texas Stadium for the state championship. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The letter, dated December 26, was addressed to the “Fugees Soccer Team.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Now it was early in December when I had just turned six. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I decided to clean up later, perhaps next December. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z December 12, the day of the first ball, dawned clear and mild, but by noon clouds had gathered and the wind had become sharp and cold. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In early December 1863, Garfield took his seat in the House of Representatives. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z At the beginning of December 1939, the Nazis decreed Jews could no longer attend school. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z It's a Friday in December and my mother is frantically chopping tomatoes, cucumbers, and cilantro. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The exhibit’s close on December 31, 2000, is just when the astronomers on top of the hill crack open their champagne bottles to celebrate the turn of the millennium. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was not what he was feeling now with December approaching. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z In early December he was told to report to Paris. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Carl to collect two hundred and fifty dollars every six months, June 30 and December 31, with six and a half percent interest figured annually. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Their shouts carried far in the December air. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On Saturday, the twentieth of December, in the year 1606, the fleet fell from London.... Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z After a week of harvesting carrots in early December, Lupita came home one afternoon and found a letter from her mother. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z December I For the first time in her life Penelope found herself wishing December would slow to a crawl. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “You're good bosses. Good men. After December first, you will still be good people. Don't forget that.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Hayden returned in December to direct the decoration of the building’s exterior, believing this to be her responsibility. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On December 23 we lit the first candle and I received my first Harry Potter book. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Rasputin was poisoned, shot, slashed, bludgeoned, and drowned to death by his rivals on December 30, 1916. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I send more from where I am going. Make payment. Maybe payment is not enough, you still have seven acres strawberries this year. Then, December, there is one more payment. You see? One more.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The locomotives began to move east in late December. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z To make it easier for the handlers of top horses to plan for their race, Santa Anita officials had assigned the weights two months before, on December 15. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In December anonymous letter writers to The Federal Gazette condemned the committee members for seizing power so arrogantly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It was after seven o’clock by this time and, being early December, already midnight black. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He had waited a long time for this special December. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z At the beginning of December the long-awaited interview, which many had foreseen as an interminable argument, was resolved in less than an hour. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In December 1942, the women of the 587th finally completed their grueling training course and were assigned to fight on the Don Front, one of the areas of battle aggressively defending Stalingrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z At 2:28 P.M. on December 29, after conferring for an hour and three minutes, the jury found him guilty. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In December, after I had submitted my last essay, I took a train to London and boarded a plane. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In late December, Vincent goes back to The Hague to collect his things. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z More than thirty British bombers were lost and crashed in fog after a single mission in December 1943, an event known as “Black Thursday.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Jule West Williams spent December 24 on a nineteen-hour bus ride and fell asleep early Christmas morning in a Portland, Oregon, airport hotel. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She thinks of that same smell one night in December, just before Christmas, the night of the winter dance. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z On December 14, word came that another company was pinned down by enemy fire, and de la O and his platoon were ordered to go help. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Evans, can you tell me what happened on the 22nd of December of last year? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z From the sad look on their laces I know December 29 despite their brave guesses they have begun to accept what I said on a whim. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Furnaces don’t go on until December the first. Then they go off March the first. I don’t make the rules.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She shivered as if it were December and not August. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Just before Christmas in 1691, Katherine died; Robert Boyle followed her a week later, on 30 December, a month short of his sixty-fifth birthday. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But that December morning, just as the marines were starting on their pancakes, an airraid siren began wailing. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The days pass, the weeks pass, and it is December. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I was inside, studying for my Form Two finals that would take place that December. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z On the morning of December 13,1 was again taken to Tuynhuys. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This was recommended at the annual conference in Durban in December of 1954, but the delegates rejected the recommendation and voted for an indefinite boycott. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Si\\r\\cla>|, December 25 He woke up with a fever. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z On December 1 Smith walked out of the barn and stooped over the dirt racecourse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At the conference that December, we in the Youth League knew we had the votes to depose Dr. Xuma. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On December 26, the orders were given for the Marines to pack up. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z If he had not he would have said December 18 which was his birthday instead of October 27 which was not. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Last December, my team and I did thirty-six posters advertising her school-wide Secret Santa—enough to put three in every hall in the building. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z At the national conference of the ANC in December, the Youth League introduced a motion demanding the expulsion of all members of the Communist Party, but we were soundly defeated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m only twelve. But going on thirteen. I'll be thirteen in December. December fourth.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Suddenly in December the waiting was over, and the Army of the Tennessee was again in contact with Washington. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z War was declared officially on December 4, and twelve days later, the Pakistani army, weakened by having to fight three thousand miles from its source of supplies, surrendered in Dacca. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The tournament will be held in New York City at the Manhattan Chess Club from December 15, 1957, to January 6, 1958. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After we were arrested in December and kept in prison for two weeks, I had one visit from Evelyn. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, when Stalin, Molotov and a coven of other Party leaders went to the Bolshoi Theatre to see it in December 1935, the same thought occurred to them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z From the beginning of December, Mami spent most of her time in the kitchen. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z But Stella couldn’t sleep this December night, so even though she knew her parents would disapprove, she’d tiptoed outside to think. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Every day the number of food bags increased, and by the end of the second week in December we had collected forty-one bags. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The project staggered on for eighteen months and was shuttered for good in December 1953. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On a morning work detail in December, a couple of weeks after his return to school, Shin discovered a dried-up ear of corn in a pile of straw and devoured it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “You know,” his father finally said, “every December was exciting to me when I was young. And it has been for you and Lily, too, I’m sure. Each December brings such changes.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z On December 10, 1973, he left to gather samples on Mount Balder; his departure was photographed from about three kilometers away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The room smelled of oak, and flame, and December. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On the evening of December 9, Major Marais came into my room, and told me to prepare myself to leave. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The prize ultimately went to Amundsen on December 14, 1911, and Scott stumbled to the Pole just over than a month later, on January 17, 1912. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Masterson’s Tomb is an escapist’s dream in the summer, but it’s a realist’s nightmare in December. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z On December thirtieth, it was the silence that woke Maniac, and the cold. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re going to play Squirrel Squad Six. The new edition. According to the game box, it won’t be released to the general public until early December.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Now it was December, and to a kid Bubber’s age that was a long time from summer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She had a bad time on December 3, and it took even longer for her to gain her strength. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z By December 1891 the two buildings farthest along were the Mines Building and the Woman’s Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In December, 1959, the Somerset’s “beach facilities” consisted of two beach umbrellas stuck in a strip of sand at the rear of the hotel. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z One day last December, Pap come home in a turrible state after he spent a afternoon working on the Tanner plantation. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z It was hard to believe that it was almost December again, that almost a year had passed since he had become a Twelve. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Wally has bought a ticket to fly on Virgin Galactic's spacecraft, scheduled to launch in December 2013. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z She also found out that Mrs. DiAngelo would have a baby girl in December. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z One December afternoon Paul Helm was pruning the patch of floral odds and ends that had entitled Bonnie Clutter to membership in the Garden City Garden Club. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Snow fell that morning outside the courthouse windows, four tall, narrow arches of leaded glass that yielded a great quantity of weak December light. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He would’ve made one @#$% of a Santa Claus if you had put a white beard on him and stuck him on a street corner in December with a little whiskey on his breath. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z He had begun it, he said, the preceding winter—to be exact, on December 3, 1894. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The flyers were asking people to come out and vote in the December 6 election. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One hot December afternoon, toward the end of my first year at school, the principal interrupted classes and summoned everyone to the courtyard. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z First off, I was born on Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, 1941. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Belonged. These things belonged to her. We’re coming up on a year in December. I’m not lettin’ all this sit here like some kind of shrine.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z If they could just make it to December 26, they had a chance. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z But Link seems to be 100 percent serious about learning his part for December 4. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z On December 26, 1991, Gorbachev took his final, dramatic step when he resigned and declared that the Soviet Union was dissolved and that the countries within its umbrella, including Russia, were now independent. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Very sincerely, jack Will December 18 Dear Julian, I am very, very, very sorry for hitting you. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The hobbits had been nearly two months in the House of Elrond, and November had gone by with the last shreds of autumn, and December was passing, when the scouts began to return. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z "It's a bill for twenty dollars for emergency attention on a certain date in December and a checkup a week thereafter." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The December 9, 1876, cover of the popular Harper’s Weekly caricatured blacks and Irish as equally buffoonish. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z On December 27, Shackleton turned back from breaking trail to find that the men hauling the boats were standing idle. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Not long after sunrise on a Sunday in December, a pilot guided a small plane over the Pacific. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “Here’s what he said in his Eighth Annual Message to Congress, last December.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z On a morning in December 1955, word reached Durham that blacks in Montgomery, Alabama, were boycotting the city’s segregated bus system. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Second week of December and I’ve been using my ice scraper every morning this week. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Sorry. I don’t have access to AC that makes August feel like December.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Everyone in the grade got assigned an Egyptian artifact to work on for Egyptian Museum Day, which was in December. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z And there was nothing they could do to change that until after December 1. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z At the end of December, Marina decided to meet the stragglers and fly with them to the Don Front herself. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Distraught, Mama decided in December that they should go stay with her older brother in a nearby village. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “Thankful Peabody’s wedding is to be in December, and I can’t bear it if he isn’t here for that.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Friday, December Z There was hardly anyone on the food line, but that didn’t make things move any faster. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z It was December, and there was enough rain. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, Crazy Horse was the biggest reason the Lakota and Cheyenne won the battle. December twenty-first, 1866, was the start of winter. The temperature that day was thirty degrees below zero.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z In the summer of that year, Halley visited Flamsteed in London, and he assisted him with observations, including two lunar eclipses on 27 June and 21 December. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z After December 3rd we began to get used to the sight of soldiers constantly around town. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z December I He had no idea what time it was when he woke up, but he knew he was cold. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z On December 6, Soviet soldiers began to push the frozen and exhausted German troops away from the city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as the last leader of the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The members of the committee journeyed to the ANC annual conference in Bloemfontein in December of 1943, where they proposed the formation of a Youth League to help recruit new members to the organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sunday afternoon, December 27 Today is the feast day of San Juan Evangelista, a good day for fortunes. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In December, when they weighed anchor for home, the captain drawled, “Well, Mr. Bowditch, you’ll have a lot to tell her—your sister, I mean—won’t you?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I arrived just after one o’clock on a crisp December afternoon. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z By eight-thirty on the morning of December 7, Judge Fielding's courtroom was filled with citizens who were thankful for the heat from the boilers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Thursday night, December 31 last day of this old sad year I can write the saddest things tonight. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On December 11, 1931, White was in his warden’s office when he heard a noise. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Hotels and restaurants around the world were completely booked well in advance for December 31, 1999—not so for December 31, 2000. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Afrikaners celebrate December 16 as the triumph of the Afrikaner over the African and the demonstration that God was on their side; while Africans mourned this day of the massacre of their people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You hate camping! And it’s December! It’s freezing outside!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z When they arrived months later, in December 1941, America and Germany were at war. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z If the passage, for example, was from the twelfth line on the page, Sax would know to meet Hall in December, the twelfth month of the year. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On December 22 American soldiers on patrol spotted Honeyman, a big man with a cattle whip in his hand. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z If it happens December 17, he wins eighty-five bucks. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z However, on that third day of December when the sky blackened, the temperature dropped, and the first flakes swirled around me. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Goudsmit told Berg that based on reliable information coming out of Germany, Werner Heisenberg would be leaving the country on or about December 15, traveling to Switzerland for a scientific conference. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They gave us Halloween candy in December, Christmas candy around Valentine’s day, candy hearts at Easter, and Easter eggs at Halloween. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Leandro and I were trying like crazy in December and January. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a woman riding on the horse’s bare back, wearing a long grey dress that hung and gleamed beneath the December moon like cobwebs in the dew. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z In December, Meng tells me we will relocate to Long Deang to live on a houseboat with one of Eang’s sisters and her family in the lower end of the Mekong Delta. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In early December, Chairman McNinch announced that the FCC was dismissing all complaints it had received about the October 30 broadcast. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z So that was the situation on December 3, 1778, when Sam came back to Redding. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no players born in July, October, November, or December, and only one each in August and September. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Sunday afternoon, December 15 This weekend has been harder than the last two months put together. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the 22nd of December of last year, at approximately 4 o'clock in the afternoon, 2 men entered a drugstore on 145th Street in Harlem. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z But I was nevertheless persistent and I raised the matter once more at the national conference in December 1951, where the delegates dismissed my view as emphatically as the National Executive Committee had done. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By December first, Stargirl Caraway had become the most popular person in school. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z December 5 is her dance recital—like I’m supposed to memorize her schedule! Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The best chance for us to express our admiration came in the first week of December. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Then before I knew it, I was looking forward to my birthday in December. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There were 573 sovereign tribal nations as of December 15, 2018, each with the recognized power to govern and exist as an independent entity. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In December 2010, more than a decade after Pena first told me about his project, his team published the results: some of the mutations matched. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I was greatly distressed by her imprisonment, though she was apparently not mistreated this time and emerged from jail in December even firmer in her commitment to the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I scheduled my periods right through December, by which time I was certain my real menarche would have finally arrived. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He said that on December 3 he was in the Rising Sun Tavern, not far from the flour mill, collecting intelligence from Philadelphia agents. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time I had celebrated my twelfth birthday back on December 7, 1953, I'd believed I had put aside my hurt over being left out of all the Maypole dances forever. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A young man of hardly twenty, his head full of nothing and his mouth recalling the taste of lipstick, Shadrack had found himself in December, 1917, running with his comrades across a field in France. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Charles got out of bed early on December 30,1838, unable to sleep. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z His efforts succeeded: in December Eisenhower ordered that a “blank wall” be placed between the physicist and all classified or sensitive government information, pending further investigation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was a dreary December without the abundance of snow that Lyddie yearned for. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z By the end of December 1925, White felt that he could no longer wait. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Then, to show her how reasonable I am, I added, “Why don’t we go to the movie on December fifth?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Five weeks later, Thursday, December 16, Nicole, her father, and I were in a joint therapy session in Dr. Schmidt’s office. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Though the December skies were cloudy, everyone felt a little safer when they flew over the airfield to pick up their escort and found thirty-six Soviet fighter aircraft joining them in the sky. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In December, after my last paycheck of the month, I had sixty dollars in my account. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As we were packing to leave Corcoran that December, a young couple came to our door. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the first days of December intelligence reports about British troop movements began streaming into Washington’s headquarters from various sources. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Shortly before 7:30 on a Tuesday night in December, Mr. Larson straightened his necktie, kissed his wife, then turned to walk down the sloped aisle of the high school auditorium. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z “I have my monthly one-on-one with him in early December, but I wonder.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z In December of 1941 Papa’s disappearance didn’t bother me nearly so much as the world I soon found myself in. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z By December 6, the spectrographers had accumulated their first measurable, if invisible, quantity of uranium 235—far from pure but at more than triple the concentration found in nature. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On the afternoon of December 18, 1944, in Zurich, Switzerland, Berg was a Swiss student, curious to hear a lecture by the great German physicist Werner Heisenberg. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a cold grey day near the end of December. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z On December 3, 1942, three pilots from the 586th took off in their solo Yak fighters into a snowstorm on a mission to escort a VIP away from the Stalingrad Front. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z December 31, 1999, is the evening when the great odometer in the sky clicks ahead. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z So, in December 1963 he sued the hospital for access to medical records related to the study. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Osborne, increasingly a national figure, was appointed warden of Sing Sing on December 1, 1914. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We flew to Hawaii on December 23, after the legislature finally hit pause for the holiday, though it still hadn’t managed to find a resolution. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z As the years rolled on, December 25 was never the same again for any of us. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z She had died three years ago in December, and every year, as December got closer, Holly started knitting. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z In December they reached the Roaring Forties of the North Atlantic and groped their way, close hauled, in the teeth of the gales. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z First, Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in early December 1941, a little more than four years ago. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I’m sitting cross-legged on my bed, the same spot against my wall where I finished the first draft last December. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z When Bobby arrived at the Empire Hotel in December 1959 for the first round of the U.S. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Thursday, December 20 My dear Little Book, Tomorrow, Minerva and I take the train home for the holidays. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By December 1, 1955, I began to realize that Grandma was right. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though it was late December, the sun, pouring in through the windows of the bus as it waited in the car park, had heated it up like a greenhouse. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “I have a really good feeling about this Christmas,” Mom announced in early December. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A cold December drizzle was falling as I stood in my place and listened to the loud blare of the prelude music for our daily exercises. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z On the icy morning of December 13th, Revere rode north through deep snow to warn the local militia that the British were on their way. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Margot went to Holland in December, and I followed in February, when I was plunked down on the table as a birthday present for Margot. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Did he come upon the Archiv fur Elektrotechnik issue for December 19, 1928, in the Berkeley science stacks utterly by chance, or was the journal there because he himself had ordered the subscription? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was December, and there’d been a huge Christmas tree in the middle of the dance hall, bright with white bulbs and an illuminated star on top. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “December 26 “The pond is a white muffin, the millhouse has disappeared under a snowdrift, and Alice and I are playing checkers with groundnuts and dried apples. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We have three witnesses to the fact that James King was in the store on the 22nd of December: Mr. Evans, Mr. Cruz, and Ms. Henry. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z November, December, and half of January passed away. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The days dragged on, and then it was December 31. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Which was why the truck was parked by the Friedmans’ house that December morning, and why the men were knocking at their door. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z After Mac was released in December, he sent the notebooks overseas to England. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On December 6, the whole place began to quiver underfoot like a giant animal trying to shake fleas from its back. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z By early December, I was more comfortable with the Courters’ routine. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She said possibly she might and he negotiated with her for some Parisian studies to reach him in time for the holiday trade in December. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z His first prep race was the San Francisco Handicap, to be run on December 15, during Pollard’s suspension. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They had left Tule Lake on December 26 and boarded the ship on December 28. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I figure I’m gonna work a couple of months—November and part of December,” said Jones. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But the dog was weak, and highly strung, and suffered a heart attack one bright December morning in the country, leaping from the porch in happy pursuit of a squirrel. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In December, a Honduran arrived with both legs and ankles broken. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Seventh-grade spring was ridiculously busy, and dramatic—Drew asked me out again in December and then we broke up on New Years Eve. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In late December, the time came to go home for Christmas break. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “We’re paying him a thousand dollars a day from now until December first, with a ten percent daily raise if he’s a good employee.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z "We studied the Egyptians from November 4th to December 2nd," he said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Their floe was continuing to decay rapidly, so the Boss made a decision on December 21. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The first of December rolled around and all the quilt squares had been turned in—except one. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The evening of Wednesday, December 30, was a memorable one in the household of Agent A. A. Dewey. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The journal entry for December 5 records, At last! Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Here it is, December 4, and I didn’t have a growth spurt. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z In early December our landlord fenced in a corner of the yard and led a squealing pig into the enclosure. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Those competitions would occur in January, April, October, and December. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z By the eighth of December the Eleanor had joined the Dartmouth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “September fifth is Amazon Rainforest Day. But so far this summer, sixty thousand fires have been detected. Fire season doesn’t end until December.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z By December, he’d be out here in a parka grilling burgers, with Christmas carols blasting from the house. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z But Gilbert outlived Elizabeth by only a few months, and died on 10 December 1603. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Endurance begins to pick its way through the ice, December 9, 1914. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z What was he doing on the afternoon of December 22nd? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was just trying to talk Paige into coming to the tea I’m going to give for the senior officers’ wives in December, Virge. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Rations, reduced in December, were reduced again in February, and lanterns in the stalls were forbidden to save oil. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Sometime before the middle of December, the baby, Plum, stopped having bowel movements. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It was six in the evening on the first Friday in December. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z So I told her December 4 is no good, because we’re both going to be in Shadbush Crossing that day for Link’s bar mitzvah. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He died on December 8, 1995, just a couple weeks before Christmas. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It’s a crisp December night and a fine rain is just starting to fall. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The next morning was the first really cold day of December. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z On December 23, Ellsberg flew by helicopter to the Mekong Delta, south of Saigon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In final exams that year, held in December, I led the Form One classes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It being early December, I feel a little strange going to put a sweatshirt on. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z In December, O High’s Wildcats basketball team played its first home game wearing blue jerseys with Sasha’s name on the back and the words No H8 on the front. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z December, approaching the year’s darkest night, and the only way out of the dream is down and through it. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z We were tipping over into the second week of December, and I’d managed to keep some level of distance in place between myself and Ocean for as long as either of us could bear it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until December 23 that the Japanese finally seized Wake and captured the men on it. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z December 25 came and went without a visit from Salvador or Lucky. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z They would spend the twenty-second celebrating Christmas, and start for Paulet Island on December 23. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z On December 2, he reached the Morelos Dam and the Mexican border. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, one Tuesday in December, at lunchtime, all at once he released the whole weight of his torment. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It was hard to exchange the security offered by that clean warm kitchen for the darkness and the cold of a December night. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why did you stop riding the buses on December fifth?” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z On December 7, 1950, I was going to put all battles aside and celebrate my birthday. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For the first three weeks of December, the pack was constantly on the move, but each time it edged toward the east, away from the Antarctic Peninsula and its outlying islands, Shackleton became anxious. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Since the beginning of December, college recruiters had been coming to Permian to see who might be worth running after. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you’re Percy somebody. I didn’t get your full name last December when you tried to kill me.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z TV\\«*rjcla>j, December f Harvey had outdone himself, Alex thought as he carried the sled into his old basement apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z In its smooth bowl he had etched with a penknife, For my little Minou, at the end of a great adventure, then the date he was murdered, December 21, 1963. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the first Saturday in December, the day that Margaret asked me to go to the mall with her so that we could buy Christmas presents for the family. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In spite of these warnings, Galileo became the official guest of the Ambassador at his residence in Rome on 11 December 1615. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z As the results trickled in from different states in December, Adams threw several tantrums that required Abigail to nurse him back to composure. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z One night in December, I brought a pink index card to dinner with me. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Yesterday, the fourteenth of December, the rebels passed through our unmanned fortifications and entered the town of Norfolk unopposed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She writes that they are saving money for a trip home the following December, after Gogol turns one. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In December 1998, Shin was ordered to wade into the river’s shallows to pick up boulders. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z O'BRIEN Mr. Harmon, were you in the drugstore owned by Mr. Nesbitt, the victim, on the 22nd of December of last year? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone stuck a Christmas tree there in December. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Early in December, in the course of a single afternoon, two of the cafe’s steadiest customers announced plans to pack up and leave not merely Finney County but the state. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z December . . . orphanages . . . the schottischeI To the beat of this ominous refrain, she trudged up the stairs to the nursery, one heavy footfall following another, like a condemned prisoner climbing the gallows. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z It was a space eclipsed by a century-old maple tree that dropped mountains of leaves every year from October to December. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I was spending considerable time out of school, especially during the months of December, January, and February, because of my asthma. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They literally covered the walls, each one turned to December. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The first time we saw Esteban smile, really smile again, was in December. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z In December, two months after John’s medevac flight to Boston, I am back with Farmer in Haiti, as our truck’s headlights bounce over the endless, back-jarring potholes of Highway 3. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But on December 5, 1933, the Twenty-First Amendment was passed and Prohibition came to an end. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Naval base, a deep water harbor, and a Marine airfield had all been taken over by the Japanese when they invaded Guam on December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It was published a few days earlier, on December 31,1890. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In December, I was moved to the Constantiaberge Clinic, a luxurious facility near Pollsmoor that had never had a black patient before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole of December could have been ruined because of the yellow tights—except for one thing. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Coldest December I can remember. This weather’s got to break soon. School’s heating bill was three hundred dollars last month.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z On December 21, 1919, the Russians, together with fifty other people who had been sentenced to deportation, were herded together on an ancient army transport ship named the Buford. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z December hits, and two nights before the game, I’m still nervous about Gavin Rose and that invisible tick on the stone. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Finally, in December, after nearly two months inside hospitals, I was permitted my first trip outside. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was the same setup as the Egyptian Museum back in December, except this time there were volcanoes and molecule dioramas on the tables instead of pyramids and pharaohs. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Finally, she heard an officer reading the actual order for British troops to march from the city at dawn on December 4 and head for Whitemarsh. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Love always, Charlie January 1, 1992 Dear friend, It’s now 4 o’clock in the morning, which is the new year even though it’s still December 31, that is, until people sleep. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Browne’s December precept was: Fortune favors the bold. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z In December 1971, when Jones and his colleagues published their tribute to Gey in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, they reported that the original pathologist had “misinterpreted” and “mislabeled” Henrietta’s cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “It may not occur to you how very important a matter this Seal is,” he wrote in a December 8, 1890, letter to George R. Davis, the fair’s director-general, its chief political officer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Until December, he was my boyfriend, but now we’re taking a break. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z |
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