Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weather that dogged him virtually ever since he left home was there with a vengeance as Dick Nixon climbed into a car in Vienna bound for the refugee camps near the Hungarian border. A thick mist scummed the windshields as the 39-car motorcade rolled eastward under the grey sky toward Andau, a scant kilometer from the border. The mud was ankle-deep along the roadside, and the heavy mist was raw and penetrating. The weather failed to daunt the 300-odd refugees gathered at the camp, and it equally failed to daunt the Vice President...
...steel, caused by the longest steel strike since 1952 (10 million tons lost) and record spending ($44 billion) for new buildings. Everywhere, from Manhattan's jagged skyline to San Francisco's rolling hills, the steel skeletons of new skyscrapers were etched against the sky. And at year's end the industry was faced with new demands from the feast-and-famine shipbuilding industry, which has enjoyed its biggest year since the Korean war with 1,567,661 tons of new shipping on order or on the ways. The Suez crisis, plus the trend to the null supertankers...
...Sky. Just beyond the Triangle, rising from the Lower Hill slums, will be a $14 million, 14,000-seat civic auditorium with a fold-back dome to let the sky in for open-air spectacles. Growing around it will be a colony of civic, cultural and middle-income apartment buildings. Toward the outskirts the University of Pittsburgh will complete two new schools for medicine and public-health services in 1957 (cost: $20 million...
...there, one of its most important jobs will be to keep track of the global movements of the white clouds far below. It will then be busy at the homely old task of forecasting the weather, doing in essence what a farmer does when he looks up at the sky and holds a wetted finger to the wind...
...students got a crash-grounding in the sort of meteorology that would be most useful in war. They learned how to predict whether the sky over a German city would be clear enough at a certain hour for high-altitude, visual bombing. Similar methods predicted days when dirty weather would protect ground troops from enemy...