Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Weather Bureau issued emergency Flash Flood warnings late last night as the swollen river--already running three to four feet above flood level in many areas--began to cause minor flood damage near Needham...
...Weather Bureau said that the 4.75 inches of rain that had fallen by 9 p.m. yesterday was an all-time 24-hour record for Boston. The storm also set a record for March rainfall here...
Died. Marion Griffin Zeckendorf, 62, second wife of Manhattan real estate Wheeler-Dealer William Zeckendorf; in the so far inexplicable (clear weather, no apparent mechanical difficulty) crash of an Air France Boeing 707 while landing at the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, killing all 63 aboard. A gracious Georgia lady who professed never to understand her husband's operations (though some of his properties were in her name), she devoted herself to charity, raising funds for everything from ballet to the A.S.P.C.A...
...realities are that Harvard students go off places come sommertime. Those that have stayed have tended to get involved in the summer program, and have gone out to see their patients--usually without supervision. They don't just sit on the ward and talk to patients. If the weather's nice they take them out. If they have cars, they might take them to Harvard Square or something. They do all kinds of things that are perfectly marvelous to reintroduce the patients to the community...
...Leathernecks, taking grim note of each setback, only pressed the enemy harder. Sharpshooters with high-powered scopes hunkered down behind battlements in "secure" sections of the Citadel wall, squeezing off occasional rounds at moving targets. As they waited out the weather for air cover or rested for their next push, the unshaven, dust-covered Marines sipped endless cups of powdered coffee, occasionally breaking out a liberated magnum of French champagne to accompany their C rations...