Word: weather
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lantflex I-57 (code name for the exercise) with its 19 ships set out to sea, Ike's hosts trotted out a dark-blue Mitscher-type cap and a dark-blue foul-weather jacket with "The President" stenciled in gold on the chest. Ike took up his station for hours at a time on the green-tinted, glass-windowed flag bridge of Saratoga.* With him was an all-star Government audience for whom the Navy could hoist its message. From Washington had come Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (who talks up but has seldom witnessed the military muscles...
Bull's-Eye Pitch. The simile is apt. As 'they launch with bull's-eye pitch and sure-fire sense of attack into one of their jazz-flavored re-arrangements (You Took Advantage of Me, Stormy Weather), the Hi-Lo's suggest the Budapest String Quartet gone mad. But this quartet is not tied to strings, generally achieves its best effects with vocal approximations of all kinds of instruments. Their voices may sound like a brass section, and often they have the sculptured phrasing of a big band. They hit the opening phrases of My Sugar...
...raining last Friday when William B. Suchmann walked into his temporary office in Massachusetts Hall. He seemed remarkably unperturbed by the weather, even though he would have had every reason for not taking it--or, indeed, his job--so calmly...
Does Noyes put on his coat when he goes from the living room to his bedroom? New Caanan weather gets mighty cold during the winter...
While Dorothy thumbed the Saturday Evening Post, her pilot-husband radioed ahead to Rawlins, Wyo. for the weather, learned that a vicious storm front was spreading across surrounding Carbon County. As they flew through the grey fringes of the storm at 8,200 ft., Dorothy heard the engines sputter; then her husband shouted: "Hang on, darling, we're going to crash...