Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Floods and rainy weather were the top sorrows of the U.S. Easter weekend. But there was another: in areas where they appeared at all, jelly beans were selling for as high as $1 a pound...
...House of Mist and Señorita Bombal have a common background in the lake region of southern Chile, where it rains so hard (104 inches a year) that mist is almost a sign of fine weather. There María-Luísa's heroine, Helga, a love child, falls in love with Daniel, the boy next door. But Daniel marries Helga's cousin Teresa, who commits suicide. Helga becomes his second wife. Because she knows that Daniel still loves Teresa, she spends a night with a handsome interloper. Later, Daniel falls in love with Helga...
...weather at Virginia Beach, Va. was too cool and blustery for the Prime Minister. A few times, William Lyon Mackenzie King bundled himself up and went out for a short walk along the shore or tackled the piney woods bordering the golf course. But mostly he stayed close to his sixth-floor suite in the Cavalier Hotel, in constant touch by telephone with Ottawa...
...Bird. The scrotum system does not work with birds, because it might cause supersonic disturbances during flight. Birds' testes must be "faired into" the neatly streamlined body. But many birds breed in warm weather, even though their blood may get hotter than 42° C (107.6° F). How do they do it? Have their spermatogenic cells learned to work at high temperatures...
Toward 5:30 o'clock and the eighth inning, cold weather descended. "I hate to keep the team so late," said Samborski, "but we have a lot to do before Saturday's game with Lowell Textile...