Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...metal run way. The morning mist often lasts into the afternoon, the bright sun of recent weeks is lost in monsoonal overcast, and the air is raw and wet with winter. The camp seems to have settled into a dull, lethargic pace to match the dull, damp weather that envelops it. In a mood of resignation, Marines go about their life-or-death work, digging into the red clay, filling sandbags, bolstering the bunkers they know are their one protection against the real rain: the whining rockets and the mortars that come with no warning-just the awful cracking sound...
...last press conference." In 1962, he had counted himself out of politics-and press conferences-with a bitter attack on reporters in California; now he virtually proclaimed Journalism Day. He put the press conference off for two hours because some out-of-state reporters had been delayed by bad weather. Afterward he held a reception for newsmen. All the while, he was proving himself capable of supplying answers that were sharp but not gratuitously abrasive, as they often were in the old days. Nixon may make some mistakes in the months to come, but he is unlikely to repeat those...
...introduced. Instructions on how to go skiing turn into advice on how to snag a skier. "You're standing on the left line next to a slim-hipped Nordic god. You produce a cigarette. He's got to be interested if he removes his gloves in arctic weather and delves through pockets to light you up." Even archaeological expeditions are happy hunting grounds. "One night, wild and high," reports a girl who joined a dig in Greece, "we danced Zorbalike steps to records and formed amorous twosomes that lasted until dawn...
...machine guns into it and have already succeeded in shooting down three U.S. fighter-bombers and three helicopters over the airstrip. Every plane that lands at Khe Sanh now expects to do so under fire, and more and more equipment is being parachuted in. Khe Sanh's weather this time of year may also aid the Communists. Fog rolls in at night and sometimes does not burn off until midday or later, making air support all but impossible...
Rain, always lovers' weather onstage, drives Sylvia into Stan's Greenwich Village flat. She (Marian Seldes) is a bookkeeper who poses as an actress on the basis of her sessions at group-therapy psychodrama. He (Gene Troobnick) is a sportswear buyer who poses as a sculptor by coating tennis rackets, mannequin legs and xylophones with plaster of paris. It is not so much the chemistry of love that fuses the pair as the mutual palpitating fear that they may be cultural dropouts...