Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afraid to fly and broods constantly about the weather as his DC-7 lifts him from city to city? When a TIME reporter teasingly called his attention to oil spouting from an engine, the candidate's eyes popped. After peering at it intently, he explained that this was the kind of engine that leaks oil normally, then lit one of the cigars he smokes incessantly, but whose brand he cannot name...
...gives us almost complete freedom of operations and makes it possible for us to practice year-round in spite of the unpredictable New England weather," he said...
...condemning the "witch trials" as "a wild mockery of justice no better than the purge trials of the 1930s" was circulated by Mrs. Yuli Daniel and Pavel Litvinov, grandson of Stalin's Foreign Minister and one of the most daring of the dissidents. Shivering so badly in the January weather that her friends had to hold her to keep her warm, Larisa Daniel was asked why, when her husband was already in a labor camp, she was there. Said she: "I cannot do otherwise." Ginzburg got five years' hard labor; as the defense lawyers left the courtroom for the last...
...quality. Once again, it heavily outnumbers Israel's armed forces in men and firepower. Last week London's prestigious Institute for Strategic Studies estimated that Egypt alone has 700 tanks and 280 heavy guns. Its air force now has 400 combat aircraft, including 40 SU-7 all-weather fighter-bombers, and 110 Mig-21s that can fly higher and faster than Israeli Skyhawks. Since other Arab forces have been similarly re-equipped, the balance of firepower has been tilted heavily in the Arabs' favor-at least on the paper order of battle (see chart...
Miss Duffy has a special talent for describing landscape, seascape and weather. But a sea that is always cold and grey and a climate so English that "the morning wept over them" become a too mournful refrain to the novel's dreary proceedings. Next time her hero should try the South Seas...