Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bibulous as distinguished from the meteorological sense, December in the U.S. is the wettest month of the year. The weather is usually dismal enough to call for the cup that cheers; but it is Christmas and New Year's Eve, those nationally permissive drinking occasions, that pop the cork and the bung and inspire a steady round of wassails. In a single month, the nation's drinkers buy an eighth part of their annual supply, some of it to give but a good share of it to consume. This year, December's national bill, for spirits alone...
North Viet Nam's major cities of Hanoi and Haiphong are normally blanketed by thick monsoonal clouds at this time of year. But for six brilliantly sunny days, the weather changed and the clouds lifted. Lifted, too, were some of the restrictions that Washington had imposed on the flight paths of U.S. fighter-bombers, enabling them to fly through the air space adjacent to China and around Hanoi. The combination sent U.S. pilots of the Air Force, the Navy and Marines pounding away day after day last week at vital transportation points throughout North Viet Nam. There...
...farmers continue to grow more on fewer acres through fertilization, mechanization and technology. Freeman indeed takes part of the blame for this year's bumper crop because he trusted all-but-unanimous warnings of impending poor harvests and drastically increased planting quotas, then watched in dismay as ideal weather brought in history's greatest yields-both of food and discontent...
...that about 10,000 years ago, as glaciers retreated northward into Canada during the Late Pleistocene epoch, these animals suddenly became extinct. Their demise, many scientists believe, was caused either by sudden climatic change -which upset their breeding season and produced a lethal sterility-or simply by winter weather, which ironically may have become increasingly severe as the glaciers waned...
...start a slaughter of Turkish Cypriots that no number of Turkish soldiers would be able to prevent. Yet so great was the public pressure in Turkey on Premier Demirel for quick action that the Greeks themselves despaired that the warning could halt the train of events. Athens stopped broadcasting weather bulletins so that the Turkish air force could not use them to plot bombing missions. Reports from Turkey said that the invasion fleet was waiting only for the onset of better weather...