Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...requests made by the Paris conferees are not excessive. But the U.S. will not be able to supply everything asked for. Because of the uncertainties of weather, it is questionable whether the U.S. can fill the food needs. Steel, mining machinery, heavy electrical equipment, farm machinery? "Little likelihood that these requirements . . . can be [fully...
Navigator Addison Thompson had decided to catch up on his sleep. The weather was too bad for star shots, and he had never thought of a radio fix. He slept for about eight hours. When he woke, he found the second flight engineer curled up cozily under his navigation table and the Sky Queen past the point of no-return...
...great shakes as a navigator anyhow. He was actually just a pilot-navigator. But he had boned up on the subject and relied on ten years of experience as a yachtsman. He had flown the Atlantic round trip only once before, had never heard of radioed wind and weather broadcasts from New York...
...Weather: Sunny and cold today, with temperatures in the high thirties and low forties. Fair and continued cold tomorrow...
Patton admits that he did not at first realize the seriousness of the Nazis' breakthrough in the Battle of the Bulge. As late as Dec. 25, 1944, he wrote optimistically: "Christmas dawned clear and cold; lovely weather for killing Germans. . . ." By Jan. 4, he confided to his diary: "We can still lose this war . . . the only time I ever made such a statement." The plan for the Third Army's subsequent breakthrough, Patton claims, was in his head complete as he awoke one morning: "Whether these tactical thoughts of mine are the result of inspiration or insomnia...