Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foul Weather. In Boonville, Mo., Mayor S. L. Jewett, who parked his shiny, new car at a ballgame, finally gave up after one foul ball hit,it where he first parked it, another hit it where he next moved it, a third hit it where he moved it again...
...Then the weather around the tornado junction of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas quieted down for a while. But the next day the great, hedgehopping twister was on the go again. This time it struck in the small plantation communities 40 miles south of Little Rock, Ark. (pop. 88,000), cut a 20-mile swath of freakish destruction, destroyed over 1,000 houses and other buildings, killed 34 people. While rescuers searched the wreckage for more bodies, they kept a wary eye on the western horizon...
...weather is almost as hard on shows as cool reviews, and from now on one Broadway theater after another will be going dark. But these shows and standbys are almost sure to span the summer: Oklahoma!, Voice of the Turtle, Harvey, State of the Union, Born Yesterday, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister, Finian's Rainbow, Brigadoon, All My Sons, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary, Sweethearts, Burlesque-and Life with Father, which next week will beat Tobacco Road's record (3,182 performances)for the longest run in Broadway history...
...crowd, the course and the weather were all peculiarly Scottish, but the winning golf in last week's British Amateur was an American monopoly. While a stinging wind whipped rain over Carnoustie course, two former U.S. amateur titleholders made it the first all-American final in the Amateur's 62-year history...
...turns out some dozen similar gadgets (the Orphan Annie dog whistle, Captain Midnight's code ring, a compass ring for Shredded Wheat, a radar ring for Peter Pan Peanut Butter) for the major users of box-top premiums. Latest to come off the top-secret list: a "weather ring" for B. F. Goodrich. (A tiny sheet of litmus paper beneath a plastic lens turns pink in rainy weather, blue in fair...