Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weather was a big factor. Snow and icy roads in much of the north tended to discourage motoring and to hold down speed...
...MUSIC IN THE MORNING. Jazz, weather, news with "Tony Tremayne...
Ironically, one of the team's really fine efforts of the year came in defeat. In wet, miserable weather at Hanover, the Crimsan staged a rally that almost caught the favored Dartmouth squad. Fitzgerald, running on a severely injured leg, took second behind the Big Green's Tom Laris. However, this performance finished him for the season with an inflamed Achilles tendon...
...peace be lost was less forceful when Khrushchev himself seems to be in no hurry for a summit. The French offered him two dates for his pre-summit visit to Paris-Feb. 20 or mid-March. Khrushchev chose the later date, blandly explaining from wintry Moscow that the weather in Paris was likely to be better then...
...more top German officers besides Rommel were absent from their coastal commands. Some of these, ironically enough, were taking part in a Kriegsspiel, a war game simulating an enemy landing in Normandy. On the very eve of Dday, the Seventh Army, guarding Normandy, was taken off alert because the weather was bad and all previous Allied landings had taken place in fair weather. The 124 planes of the 26th fighter wing stationed near the coast were pulled back on June 5. The only daylight action of the Luftwaffe on D-day was one two-plane air strike. For twelve hours...