Word: weather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back in September that the decompression had been painful, even for those headed back to the hometown Boston Globe. And although at least two fellows per class are catapulted to instant fame, others long bear the scars of re-entry: getting slapped with night re-write in Detroit, punishment weather stories in Texas...
...visibility down so much that even the control tower operators could see only inches beyond their windows. In earlier times, as late as 1980, the pilot would have circled in a fixed pattern along with other planes, perhaps for an hour or more, hoping for a break in the weather. Or headed for another city. Either choice would have been painful for nerve-racked passengers and costly for the airline. Yet the skipper of Flight 122 blandly announced over the loudspeaker: "The weather is bad on the ground in Chicago today, but we 'II be arriving on schedule." Then...
...week from Tuesday, weather permitting, the women in white have a rematch with the squad from Hanover. Manager Robin Worth said, "It will have to be a tremendous match...
...match will take place either outdoors or indoors on Palmer Dixon's slick courts, depending on the weather and Dartmouth coach John Kenfield's preference...
Much of the upsurge in campus activism this spring--campus activism, it is true, always increases when the weather turns warm, but usually not as much as it has this year--is tied to the increasing importance of the issue of southern African apartheid in the minds of students, corporate shareholders and the press. At Harvard, the entire complex machinery for making investment decisions has been deeply involved in the controversy over U.S. firms operating in South Africa, and in the related but more immediate issue of Harvard's investments in those firms. When the Harvard Corporation meets today...