Word: weather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as Parisians basked in spring's first sunny warmth, Bruce stood by his broad window in the U.S. Embassy Annex overlooking the Place de la Concorde. "The trouble with this weather," he complained lightly, "is that it makes the French too optimistic about their economy. Rain would be better for their crops." Many an EGA man believed that France, with her chronic slipshod finances and Communist sabotage, was ECA's biggest problem. Bruce was sure France could also be ECA's biggest triumph...
...were understandably reluctant to lose the morale effect of U.S. forces on the spot. And Navy men were as sad as if they were leaving an old friend. For 27 years, the Pacific had been the Navy's ocean. They would miss its warm waters and its good weather. Said one admiral wistfully: "The Atlantic is a hard, cruel ocean...
...kind of narrow shelter, almost a man's height, and having a rough swinging door at the nearer end. It had been there before anyone could remember, and it stayed there because no one could remember to have it taken away. It was very old and very weather-stained...
Harvard is naturally at a disadvantage when it journeys below the Mason-Dixon line. The teams it meets will have been practicing -- outdoors -- for at least a month longer than the Crimson has been able to work, despite the fact that the weather man has been smiling on Coach Stuffy McInnis all week...
Specialists. Near Belleville, ILL., 25 Air Force weather experts, all meteorological school graduates, wound up a two-day conference on their specialty, then were marooned overnight at Scott Field because they failed to foresee a snowstorm...