Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrong about that. A spell of hot weather brought the dogwood out, and one day last week, Half Moon was misty with its whiteness. Gil propped himself up to take a good look. "Never seen it prettier, even if it is late," he told Maggie. Then he fell back and closed his eyes for the last time...
Crimson Coach Barnaby attributes this dismal situation to uncontrollable conditions rather than to any inherent weakness in his team. Weather, for instance, has held the squad back all year, cancelling three matches and forcing innumerable practices off the courts or onto the tricky surfaces of the Indoor Athletic Building basketball floor...
...other eras-notably a pair of folks archly named Gertrude S. and Virgil T. (Gertrude did not look like Miss Stein, nor Virgil like Mr. Thomson). Another, born of her delight with G.I.s, was called Jo the Loiterer. Hapless Andrew Johnson turned up, groaning throughout, "It's cold weather . . . wherever I am." And John Adams sniffed, "Do not pity me; I am an Adams and not pitiable...
...weather-wizened old rancher from west Texas stuffed $60,000 in his jeans and headed for the town of Del Rio on the Rio Grande River. He was going to bet the whole caboodle on the queen of quarter horses, a chestnut mare named Shue...
...room clique of case-hardened Communists. But communism or socialism were rarely mentioned in its columns ; the paper posed as a liberal organ. The Communists posed as liberal patriots. In the name of liberalism, Marx shouted for war between Prussia and Denmark. He knew that war is good growing weather for communism. The result, as always, was the gradual discrediting of the liberals...