Word: castered
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...damn what degree of temperature is expected. The average person doesn't know what humidity is. They want to know how they're going to feel tomorrow. So this summer we intend to use phrases like 'fairly comfortable' and 'uncomfortable.' " Where another fore caster would rely on the standard "increasing cloudiness and warmer" (words to dampen the enthusiasm of any weekender), Mr. Cameron will carol: "A few light, puffy clouds . . . probably clear weather ahead." Another longtime wish which Weather man Cameron has not yet nerved himself to fulfill is to send the newspapers...
...make Paul Revere a very exciting person, and for all her skill and devotion Biographer Esther Forbes has not managed to do much better. But her 464-page biography of the famous night rider, silversmith, dentist, bell caster, copperplate engraver, and revolutionary politician is absorbing reading. Reason: Paul Revere lived so close to the center of the historical storm of Boston (colonial population about 15,000) which influenced world history ever since that the context makes him impressive...
...discussion, among other matters, was an industry-wide wage boost, to include all the nation's 27,000 unionized makers of tableware, lighting fixtures, tubing, lenses-from the semiskilled up to the offhand caster plate workers at the tiptop of the craft's rigid craft system. Not included in their ranks: workers in bottles, jars, flat glass...
WHICH is the better weather fore-caster, a squirrel or the Maintenance Department? Tradition assumes the sqirrel, and according to reports so far the squirrel has not prepared for a cold winter...
...there can be a smile in such a tragedy, it came from the 13th man, a spry little Irishman named Tom Casey who felt the staging going, grasped a caster overhead and dangled for seven minutes. "It seemed a hell of a lot longer than that to me!" he said. Workers from above lowered a looped cable through which he inserted his legs, permitting them to hoist him to safety. Not until then did he unclench his teeth from his pipe, let it drop down, down into...