Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were buffeted and disheveled by the warmth of their welcome. General Winterton decided not to wait around for a proper transfer of authority, sent his regrets and sailed away, amid taunts. The Centaur's skipper explained later that he could not delay putting to sea because of the weather...
...Rainmaker (by N. Richard Nash) produces a fair amount of good theatrical weather. Playwright Nash, author of the allegorical See the Jaguar, is still bewitched by symbolism but no longer groggy from it. This time he is so obvious that a retarded matinee audience can see the point. When he isn't being florid, in thought or language, he can be very good fun. The Rainmaker is about equal parts sticky romance and lively comedy, crumpled cornflowers and high-grade corn...
...Cold weather recently stopped the official digging, and police are frustrating the free lancers. Spina, the mother lode of the treasure, has not yet been found. Perhaps it lies under the mud not far away. There is a rumor that Professor Arias knows where it is, but is keeping mum. Sophisticates in nearby Ferrara do not believe this. "When Spina is found," they say, "the Comacchiesi will find...
...dozens of occasions, Curtice has displayed his knack for picking automotive winners. In 1940 he brought out the first two-tone car. In 1948, for a special investment bankers' show, Curtice ordered a Buick combining the all-weather protection of a coupe with the sporty look of a convertible. The car was the Buick Riviera, the nation's first mass-produced hardtop convertible, a style that proved so popular that it now accounts for 54% of Buick's sales...
...Brown Cubs were unable to run their T-formation plays with any deception. The Yardling passing attack was not hindered by the weather, however. Sparked by tailbacks John Hennessy and Walt Stahura and end Bob Cathcart, it proved to be the Crimson's main offensive threat...