Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Puleston laid aside his brushes and took up binoculars to join in the annual splurge of Christmas bird counting reported in SPORT. He was one of a Viking-blooded group which chartered a fishing boat to cruise the Atlantic off Long Island and New Jersey, prepared to brave arctic weather in return for arctic rarities. Actually he ran into bluebird weather and logged a disappointing twelve species, including nothing more noteworthy than 95 gannets. He did better on another count near his home in Suffolk County. That party tallied 89 species, including two stragglers from the far north : the white...
...Louis Barnay's butcher shop. At Perigueux 500 defended the town's black smith against collectors. In the past 18 months, some 500 UDCA demonstrations by provincial citizenry have frustrated tax collectors. Moaned a government official: "All we can do is be patient. If the weather gets cold, and the roads get icy, they'll have to stay indoors. Maybe that will stop them." Poujade got his movement started when tax collectors came to his village in Southern France a year and a half ago. Pou jade, an ex-stevedore, professional bicycle rider and prewar Fascist-party...
Thus equipped, the pilgrim sets off on his wanderings through a world of serfs and soldiers, wild weather and mud-rutted roads...
More dangerous is a thick-weather possibility: when the pilot mistakes the slope-line lights for the lights outlining the runway. Many pilots have had this illusion and have pulled up just before landing on water or broken ground. The Italian captain may have made this mistake and actually landed on the pier that carries the lights...
Throughout most of the U.S. last week, the weather was fair and clear, but on television it snowed steadily. To TVmen, a Christmas without snow would be nearly as bad as one without mistletoe, carols, or Santa Clauses. In Manhattan alone, the four networks used enough artificial snowflakes to fill three railroad boxcars. After each winter scene, the snow was carefully swept up (it can cause serious trouble if it gets into TV cameras) and sometimes used again on the next program...