Word: weather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most people complain about the paper work only if they don't get a deer," says Frank Fennesz, 19, of Union City, as he hefts 113 Ibs. of venison-to-be back into the bed of his pickup. Fennesz's only complaint is the rainy weather, not be cause he minds getting wet but because rain turns dry, rustling leaves into a soundless carpet of mush. "If you don't see the deer, you can't hear them in weather like this." Chatting with one an other as they stand around in the glare of headlights...
...they're not leaning against each other, end on end." Nonetheless, it is also apparent that what happens next in Iran could have an important effect on the whole region. The international rivalry that Rudyard Kipling once described as "the great game" for control of the warm-weather ports and lucrative trade routes between Suez and the Bay of Bengal is still being played, except that the chief contestants today are not imperial Britain and czarist Russia but the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and the big prize is not trade but oil. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
...price rise announced by the OPEC cartel will hurt almost all industrial nations. The extra costs will amount to about $6 billion for the U.S., some $2 billion for West Germany and roughly $1.5 billion each for France and Italy. With North Sea oil on stream, Britain should weather the increase without trouble...
Sports and weather are only the two most glaring beats whose coverage is profoundly colored by the prophet motive. Fashion news is primarily about things that have not yet happened, and the writer who dwelt on the reportable facts of the present would be viewed as quaint. The book reviewer, though stuck with palpable volumes of the moment, is happiest when proclaiming how posterity will treat a work. The food critic verily feeds on the unreliable assumption that a future meal, whether in a restaurant or out of a recipe, will be as palatable as the past one. Political writers...
...could already begin to see the results of the program. All over the world the weather was more bizarre than anyone could remember. There were unusual storms, massive rains, horrible droughts. The deserts were expanding into the farmlands of millions of people...