Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the morning the weather was so adverse as to cause one boat to capsize and severely hamper the rest of the fleet. By the afternoon, however, the morning's light rain and high winds gave way to calmer weather...
...visitor to penetrate the forbidden land has been enchanted by its people. They do few things terribly well, but everything with zest. Explorer Fosco Maraini believes they have found the secret of liberty, which is "to live like a flower or a stone; sheltering from the rain in bad weather, enjoying the sun if it is fine, breathing in the fullness of the afternoon, the sweetness of evening, the mysteriousness of night, with equal joy and wisdom. Perhaps that is why you hear singing everywhere, fine music that fades away into space as if it were spontaneously generated." Coming back...
...comparison he modestly rejects. The record, though, is of a Jack-of-all-musical-trades, and a master of many. In ten years he has worked on something like 30 films, composing, arranging, orchestrating and conducting quite a few entirely on his own, including It's Always Fair Weather and Bad Day at Black Rock. By "cheating every minute," he has managed to turn out a symphony and a quantity of piano works and chamber music. As a concert pianist, he admires the moderns-Copland, Barber. Prokofiev, Hindemith, Bartok-but he has also recorded all the four-hand piano...
...Like the weather, the varsity baseball team opened hot and finished cold, allowing four runs during the seventh and eighth innings and bowing to Northeastern, 6 to 2, at the winners' field Saturday...
West Point weather at this time of year is legendarily bad, and it will take a great deal of spirit to overcome the elements and defeat the team that the New York writers are calling the best in the East...