Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aroostook County potato growers suffered from wet weather and were outraged by Governor Cross's stand against price supports...
When the carpenters and joiners of Waltham, Mass, whittled out wooden models for L. W. Gushing & Sons' custom-made weather vanes, they had no pretensions of being artists. If they added an occasional creative or imaginative touch to these practical instruments, they were merely trying, as one craftsman put it, to "blend the useful and the agreeable...
...Except in the first days of hot weather, most people get enough salt in normally seasoned food, reported Indiana University's Professor Sid Robinson. After that, only those doing hard labor in extreme heat should take extra salt. For others, it puts too heavy a burden on the kidneys and sweat glands...
NORTH AMERICAN Aviation's newest Sabre jet, the F-86K, armed with four 20-mm. cannon (instead of the standard rockets) and equipped with a new all-weather fire-control system, will go to NATO air forces...
...story is told by Mary in an inner monologue. Everyone is solicitous of her health ("You can catch your death this weather"), but death is so close and horrifying that she cries: "I am too afraid to be sorry ... I want to be brave but I cannot." Feeling like an animal because she is always watched, Mary knows only two inescapable realities: prison and fear. Gradually her fear mounts to hysteria. She loses all control, screams in her sleep, abandons even vanity. Using lipstick would be indecent now, she thinks, "like painting the face of a corpse...