Word: weather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ready stranded here from all over the U.S. and Canada. The Emmanuel Baptist Church has opened its doors to offer shelter, and this morning the church ladies are dishing up a free hot meal in the auditorium. "When we realized there were no rooms at the motel and bad weather in all directions,"recalls Church Mem ber Russell Thrift, "we told the boy down at the gas station to let folks know they could stay at the church. We did the same thing last year. Every time this happens, when folks are gone we find checks here and there, tucked...
Force-even brutality-is palpable in one of those Kremlin receptions, where the ranks of red-faced, beribboned generals and admirals step up unsmiling to the tables of food and vodka, casting cold eyes over all assembled, including their associates. Even in discussions of the weather, ideological inflexibility emerges, spawned by that Soviet sense of inferiority that suggests they are going to prove they are right, come what may. There are those who still insist that one reason for the success of the 1972 Moscow summit was that Nixon had bombed Haiphong and mined the city's harbor...
...fourth race at Santa Anita was for four-year-old horses that have never won, otherwise known as "maidens." The purse was $13,000, the crowd sparse and the Southern California weather mucky. The winner by a neck: a 5-to-2 shot named Father Duffy...
Temperatures reached minus three degrees yesterday and are expected to dip to around zero today, according to National Weather Service reports...
...confident reports that the Shah would weather the crisis are gone now, and the American media is taking a bit more care when describing Iran's various power holders. But the American press was more than simply mistaken in its predictions; the distortion and misunderstanding of the nature of Iranian opposition forces reflected nationally held values and opinions that paved the way for a repetition of the United States's most familiar foreign policy fiasco. The Iran that the press and the U.S. government sought was one that would be westernized along the Shah's U.S. inspired model...