Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain," Bernard Shaw has his madeover Liza Doolittle triumphantly recite in his film Pygmalion, thus inadvertently giving modern literature its one memorable line characterizing the equable climate of the Iberian Peninsula. But there was nothing temperate about February's weather in Spain. The cold wave which had paralyzed southern Europe swept down over the Pyrenees and deposited a blanket of frost which chilled to the bone millions of lightly dressed Spaniards living in unheated homes and, far worse, ruined the crops on hundreds of thousands of olive, almond and citrus trees. Hardest...
...test this theory, Dr. Miyake and his colleagues studied the world's weather maps. The wind pattern looked encouraging for the theory. On the day the radioactive material rose above the Nevada desert, there was a powerful wind waiting aloft to carry it eastward. The most probable route would take the atmospheric tracer across the U.S., the Atlantic, Europe, Central Asia and China. It should travel about 1,000 miles a day and should reach Japan in about the right time: two weeks...
...students and residents of the town wearily slogged through an unusually snowy winter, impatience with continually slushy streets grew stronger and stronger. Some blamed atomic explosions for disrupting the weather. Others felt that either Senator Bridges or the lack of a decent winter holiday had something to do with the general discomfort. Many, however, seemed to think that Mayor Sullivan might have provided snowplows. At any rate, pussy willows are being sold along Mass. Ave., and the trial by wet ankles is obviously over. As galoshes are put away for another occasion, a few may be willing to agree with...
...where talent often plays second fiddle to length of service, Prawy hand-picked 20 beauties for his chorus and excused the theater's other 60 choristers. After that all Prawy had to do, by sheer dictatorial force, was to prevent the Austrian singers from ad-libbing about Vienna weather, Austrian taxes or anything else they might think funny in the middle of a song...
...little hut. After absorbing these whoppers, the audience is prepared for one more anticlimax: Taylor tracks the fleeing Granger and Debra to a hillside cave, but instead of shooting them down, obligingly camps outside all night. By morning he is frozen stiff as an ice cube-even though the weather is apparently so mild that it does not raise a single goose bump on Debra's bare and dimpled knees as she rides off into the dawn in Granger's arms...