Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what appeared to be a violent protest against existing weather conditions, the elves and gnomes which frequent all gases, particularly neon, have incapacitated the "S" in SHELL (right), giving the motorists on Memorial Drive at Magazine Beach a vivid reminder that the day of judgment is not far off. Repairmen have been alerted and are expected to appear on the scene tomorrow to disenchant the "S". If the weather or the magic spell is too potent, the sign may remain in its unholy predicament, and, as the station's proprietor observed, "The (S) hell Oil people will be mighty...
...bouquets of white chrysanthemums were hundreds of officials and theatrical personalities, backed by thousands of unofficial well-wishers. First of the all-Negro cast off the train was John McCurry (who plays Crown). McCurry stretched his 6-ft.-6-in., 265-lb. frame and muttered, "This is T-shirt weather in Minnesota...
...mere fact of the heretics' existence is taken by Congregationalist Kilde as a harbinger of better times to come. "Whatever the weather otherwise, it is springtime in Midwestern Lutheranism. The ice is beginning to break, the long, cold winter of dark dogmatism ... is beginning to wane...
...Stephens has copied his style from the great Czech Emil Zatopek. During the World Youth Festival at Bucharest in 1953, the two men became friends. An unspectacular performer at Bucharest, Stephens came home and began to break Australian records right and left. Often the races were run in foul weather, and often Dave ran barefoot. He could not afford track shoes...
Pomegranate Toasts. At last the Russian leaders arrived, a day late because of bad weather. As the plane touched down, a voice over the street-corner loudspeakers ordered all shops in Kabul closed. The public was herded onto one side of the street, and troops stood on the other, facing the crowd with rifles on their shoulders. Russia's Prime Minister and the Communist Party boss were greeted with almost complete silence as they rolled into the city along a two-mile stretch of asphalt highway completed only the day before with Soviet materials and equipment...