Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over a benjo (lavatory) that Matsuno had installed in his private office. Matsuno's aides pointed out that he had ordered the plumbing because "he felt sorry for the toilet guard, who had to salute him every time he entered the public rest room." Matsuno, too, managed to weather the storm...
...rainy days, announcers give the weather forecast to the background refrains of electronic wind and rain, which comes in three intensities, drying up, drizzle and drench. Warm summer nights are depicted by impressionistic bullfrogs and nightingales, cold winter days by chilling quivers and twangs. The music for time checks ranges from "a snappy c'mon-get-out-of bed sound" to a "gentle good-night-and-sweet-dreams sound." Says Siday: "It's all subliminal. The imagination of the listener can run riot...
Under the Weather. Saul Bellow, novelist (Herzog) and would-be playwright, cannot seem to decide whether women are a pain in the neck, a pain in the groin, or a pain in the psyche. In these three one-acters, the relations between the sexes appear more punishing than pleasurable, something men and women endure rather than relish...
...crawl 100 feet on your belly, pushing a pack of equipment ahead of you. Further beyond, the passage leads to a shorter Gunbarrel that ends in a "sump": a low tube nearly filled with water, with only three of four inches of breathing space at the top, in dry weather. Then the cave becomes high enough to walk in and leads to miles of unmapped passages. But this is only New York. In West Virginia, or Kentucky, or Mexico, the dimensions are much more fantastic...
...Democrats sent up as a trial balloon, a charge that Anderson had ordered concrete to be poured in freezing weather. This reportedly resulted in substandard construction of a stretch of Highway 35, which he wanted finished before election time. The governor's loud and righteous denials turned the accusation into the campaign's biggest issue and led to his defeat...