Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aircraft's forward hatch stepped Dwight Eisenhower, wearing a grey topcoat and a grey felt hat. The weather omens were inauspicious as he stepped lightly down the ramp to begin his historic 19-day tour of eleven nations. But with his evident ease and friendship, he carried his own omens. He doffed his hat in the rain as he shook hands with Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi and Premier Antonio Segni, doffed it again as a band played short versions of the U.S.'s Star-Spangled Banner and Italy's Inno di Mameli...
...stay, Italy's President Gronchi seemed acutely embarrassed about the rain-splashed welcome. "Ah, Mr. President," said Gronchi, with a sad-eyed shrug. Ike reached out and patted Gronchi on the sleeve, said he felt that the welcome had been very warm, expressed understanding about the bad weather. And in the splendid patina of the Quirinale, the party's spirits picked up. That afternoon Ike found time for a nap. His son Major John and Daughter-in-Law Barbara explored the sprawling, centuries-old palace ("This is living," said Major John). That evening, after a talk with Gronchi...
...also thoroughly irritating. A prosaic love triangle is established on a remote banana plantation-a planter (the book's nameless narrator), his wife and a neighboring plantation owner. If this were one of Paul Bowles's African novels of sin and sun, the weather would cloud up on cue, providing a timpani accompaniment to the heroine's rages. Robbe-Grillet cheerfully invents a greater fault. Obsessed by the reality of objects, he describes them endlessly, and then repeats his descriptions-a column that casts a shadow, a squashed centipede, the location of a window, of a garden...
Draper sees no landing problems except at the high (6,000 ft.) field at Kabul, Afghanistan (which is being constructed for the Afghans by the Russians). Hemmed in by high mountain ranges, Kabul has no instrument-landing facilities, is often socked in suddenly by bad weather. As an extra safeguard, an Air Force C-47 at Kabul will make constant, firsthand weather reports to Draper while he is en route from Karachi. If bad weather does hit, Draper will know about it in plenty of time to skip Kabul and head for New Delhi. Hopefully the party will try Kabul...
...When Eugene Gleason, World-Telegram reporter, goes to work on an assignment which calls for exhaustive digging, nothing halts him," glowed the New York World-Telegram and Sun last June. "Time is of no consequence: he will work 24 hours without thought of rest. Weather never daunts him . . . No one awes him." The paper, about to start a new series by Reporter Gleason, listed some of his exploits: he had discovered the cause of a fatal 1956 explosion on a Brooklyn pier (improperly stored explosives); he had uncovered skulduggery in Manhattan's slum-clearance program; he had broken...