Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once decided to deport him Jan. 31, argued his future for two hours. The Foreign Minister, having taken the brunt of U. S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh's ire, was for deportation, the Minister of Interior against. Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris was on the fence. The spell of cold, wet weather Greece has been having decided the argument. Premier Tsaldaris announced that "in the present inclement weather, it would be murder to deport Mr. Insull unless his health improves." Given his cue, Insull's Greek lawyer moaned: "It is impossible to imagine Mr. Insull traveling. He is practically dying...
...Army took to its new job like a hawk to the air. Its enthusiasm, however, did not relieve the anxiety of oldtime operators for the safety of young military pilots. Few of the Army men had had much bad-weather flying - an essential for regular mail transportation. Fewer still knew the perilous mountain routes they must follow through the thickest night without two-way radio. Even before the Army officially took over, the ousted operators were getting confirmations of their worst fears...
...Rockefeller," cried an acquaintance. "Howdy," piped Mr. Rockefeller. His servants pulled down the car's shades, smoothed his blankets, fussed with his coat. "I'm all right," he sighed, a little irritably. Someone asked the servants how he had stood the trip. "It's fine weather," said they...
...Inclement weather was favorable to what Grecian visitor...
...perfecting her technique for mass anesthetisation; Hitler is applying the social chloroform of organized propaganda at this very moment. Every means of intellectual expression at once falls to the purpose of perpetuating the intelligent regime. That in itself should give unlimited life to any dictatorship strong enough to weather its own adolescence, since an opposition without a voice is as inaudible as the underworld and can be treated as such under those circumstances...