Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weatherman promises clear and somewhat cooler weather for today's ceremonies. Highest temperature will be near 80 degrees, with moderate westerly winds...
What happened was a breakdown in the German command. Rommel, believing the weather too foul for an invasion, was away in Germany on DDay. The 21st Panzer Division, instead of counterattacking, was fed into a piecemeal defense of Caen. The 12th SS Panzer and the Panzer Lehr Divisions were held in the rear from 0400 to 1600 by command from Hitler himself. Smothered by Allied air attack, they did not get into action until D-plus-one, D-plus-two and D-plus-three...
...things Briton White writes about are hunting, the schooling of hunting birds and beasts (Falconry, White insists, "is not a hobby or an amusement: it is a rage "), and the odd people and places he encountered. The Godstone of the book's title is an idol for controlling weather and crop fertility, reportedly venerated as late as this century, and White was determined to unravel the mystery of its origin. Mainland oldsters remembered the idol, all right, but they were evasive, afraid that White would impugn their Catholicism with a report of pagan behavior. In the end, the author...
...definitive" conclusions about the 1959 Harvard baseball team, when it still has five games left on its schedule, ought to have his head examined. Such an attempt represents a most flagrant instance of that hazardous occupation known as Climbing-Out-on-a-Limb. And it is only with a weather eye on the ground below that this writer dares venture out even a few inches toward the uncertain fringes...
...Scrolls, a Fountain. Coming to the U.S. from his native Vienna in 1926, Kiesler took up teaching at Columbia in the 1930s, amazed his students with suggestions that they develop spiral buildings, semicircular projection screens, "floating cities" wrapped in cocoonlike weather protectors, and "horizontal skyscrapers" suspended like bridges. In the 1940s he built great open sculptures and clusters of pictures "to relax inside" and designed striking stage sets for No exit and The Magic Flute...