Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe that Britain will rise again with even higher influence in the world than she now exercises. I work for the revival of a united Europe. I am sure that the English-speaking world can weather all the storms that blow. And that above all these, a world instrument, in Al Smith's words, "to weld the democracies together" can be erected which will be all-powerful so long as it is founded on freedom, justice and mercy-and is well armed...
Because the "day of general thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful crop and other blessings" fell on Monday this year, most Canadians made a long weekend of it. In Ontario, crisp, clear weather favored the football games- Hamilton's Tigers lost to Toronto's Argonauts, 13 to 1. Over the northern prairies lay a heavy overcast; "fowl weather," said the gunners, setting out to shoot geese or ducks for the holiday table. At Mile 450, on the railway to Churchill, the Rev. W, E. Williamson hoped to bag a caribou, planned to share the meat with...
...weather flying" is here, but not for the public. Colonel J. Francis Taylor, deputy commander of the Air Force's All-Weather Flying Center at Wilmington, Ohio, said last week that for 14 months his outfit has flown a daily, round-trip schedule from Ohio to Maryland. Radar and G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach) got the planes through safely and landed them in zero-zero soup. It was always "instrument weather" for the pilots, who kept their cockpits hooded on every flight...
...Weather...
After the Crimson's workout in the sunny South last week, the weather man might be said to be favoring the Varsity today--but the injuries incurred at Charlottesville far over-balance any benefit in physical conditioning...