Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found the atmosphere refreshingly free of polemic flak. Kremlinologists thought they detected an extra beep when Gromyko, in the midst of an otherwise vituperative speech to the General Assembly, remarked: "Even when other centers of international tension appear, Europe still remains the barometer of the world's political weather." That, in the convoluted language of Soviet diplomacy, appeared to mean that the Russians, whatever they may say in public, are tired of letting Viet Nam stand in the way of agreements elsewhere. Heartened, Rusk invited Gromyko to see President Johnson...
Each golfer turns in one or two scores for the two-day tourney. The low ten scores for each House are added up and the House with the lowest total wins. So Kirkland averaged a little over 85 shots a round. Not bad in last week's chilly, wet weather...
...limits available land as it does in Pittsburgh, it is possible to utilize new construction techniques to provide needed facilities on a minimum of land. Building vertically rather than horizontally, placing athletic fields on roofs, allocating several floors of a high rise structure to athletics, even creating an "all weather" sports center with movable walls which could be retracted to let in fresh air and sun in good weather, all are possible. Such construction techniques could reduce by as much as 50 per cent the land needed for school purposes. Nevertheless, every effort should be exerted to obtain the largest...
...weather ashore in Constantine's domain last week was as calm as the Mediterranean. While tourists sunned themselves on the beaches and listened to David Oistrakh perform with the Utah Symphony Orchestra in the 1,800-year-old Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Premier Stephan Stephanopoulos, 67, celebrated his first full year in office in his cluttered quarters at the Parliament building. He had been sworn in as Constantine's solution to the summer-long constitutional crisis provoked by the resignation of Premier George Papandreou last summer and as a way of avoiding Papandreou's demand...
Times"), then claps on his black bowler, picks up his black umbrella and, looking for all the world like a department-store manager from Sloane Square, scissors briskly off to the Met. If the weather is bad, he will take the subway, often stopping off at a sleazy hashery for a cup of hot milk with a dash of coffee-much to the dismay of his staff, who feel that to be seen in such a place is beneath the dignity of his station...