Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Always, however, when the agonizing decisions had to be made, Ike Eisenhower made them. As all the world now knows, the invasion was postponed for one day on account of stormy weather. The forecast for June 6 was anything but promising, but another postponement would have meant waiting two weeks for favorable tides. And that would have involved a grave risk to secrecy and morale. The Germans had been led to expect a landing at a later date and a point farther east on the coast. Eisenhower gambled on the weather for the sake of tactical surprise...
...Bartlett and his colleagues, these results forecast a germinal revolution in U.S. dairy farming. Most dairymen have fewer than 20 cows, cannot afford to keep or hire a superior bull. Dr. Bartlett believes that artificial insemination, with a few great bulls fathering most of the nation's calves, is economically inevitable (already nearly one-tenth of all New Jersey calves are so bred). One incidental bene fit, he observes, is that bulls, which almost invariably become vicious after their fourth or fifth year, will be largely eliminated as a menace to life & limb in the U.S. countryside...
Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, commander of the Twelfth Army Group, can get the weather forecast at any time from his meteorological staff, but he likes to see things for himself. So he keeps three barometers in his headquarters office, jots down the readings twice a day in his notebook...
Their reports, radioed from barren rocks and cliffside perches, now enable the "weather busters" of the A.T.C. to forecast the weather across the North Atlantic mile by mile, almost hour by hour. The communications network, radio ranges and home beacons shepherd the transports and the bombers across. The great bases at Labrador, Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland and the Azores provide refueling, maintenance and sometimes havens...
...species of carp (known in Germany as the "weather fish"), which becomes very lively when the barometer drops. From Cape Town last week came a whopping weather-fish story. Dr. Cecil von Bonde, South Africa's fisheries director, said he was testing a fish which seems able to forecast weather after death...