Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed to disappear altogether, with temperatures averaging 7.2° below normal. Thousands of northbound scarlet tanagers and other birds-whose migratory urge is regulated by the lengthening of the days rather than the rising of the mercury-starved to death for lack of caterpillars, which hatched three weeks late...
...have been far-reaching. Crops were hit hard, from the fragile, cheesecloth-shaded tobacco leaves in the Northeast to the whole cornucopia of California fruits, particularly pears, apples, tomatoes and citrus. In Los Angeles, the rains brought unusually lush vegetation to the hills, posing a serious fire hazard for late summer, when the greenery bakes tinder...
...dawn's early light, the chant echoed through the streets of Enugu, the capital of Eastern Nigeria. Because Nigeria has been a troubled land of late, the word of its demise was not a total surprise-although perhaps premature. But who were the Biafrans...
...guests. They were attended by pages in medieval red and gold coats and silver-buckled shoes, and listened to festive speeches amid the baroque frescoes in the Palazzo dei Conservatori. They dined in the Palazzo del Quirinale, the former home of Italy's kings, and sipped champagne until late into the night with some of Rome's most beautiful women, including Gina Lollobrigida. The only trouble was that the men who should have been there to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, which established the Common Market, were absent. France...
Cruising on Land. Thus equipped, the new breed of pioneers can gather around the old late show on TV, sleep beneath their toasty-warm electric blankets, and wake up to shave with plug-in razors while the coffee makers perk merrily away. If the old object of camping as a spartan way of getting back to nature has thereby been lost, it is beside the point...