Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer and few plans. "We're not responsible for sun-spots," snapped mystic mathematician Premier Eamon de Valera at his critics. And while Dev doodled oversize hieroglyphics, at his side nervous, lanky Agriculture Minister Patrick Smith could only assure the Dail that "with the help of God" the weather would mend. "I have faith in the mercy of God," piously echoed an Opposition frontbencher. Like the Government, the Opposition had no further ideas...
...week's end the winds were beginning to blow. Between showers the sun shone fitfully and there was a moon for night plowing. As Eire's farmers drove their spades deep into the soggy earth, Eire's priests prayed for the fine weather to hold. "A grand campaign of prayer and work will save us," said Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory...
...turned out to be a drenching, misty Saturday-but the British are used to soggy race tracks and that sort of jolly boating weather. Of the 40 million men, women & children in England, over two million spent the afternoon getting wet for sport's sake...
...lower slopes of the Green Mountains, the snow was almost gone. As the dazzling sun shone through the sugar bushes (maple groves), it glinted on some 3,000,000 tin buckets hanging on the grey trees. This week, as the weather turned warm, the groves tinkled with the "plunk plunkplunk plunkplink" of maple sap dropping into the buckets. "Dollars droppin'," Vermonters said, as they paused to listen. It was sugaring time...
...Vermont farmers harvested their great cash crop, they were characteristically gloomy about its size and the weather. (A good run requires frosty nights and warm days.) In his sugar house near Arlington, pink-cheeked old Clifford Mears grumbled: "There'll come a south wind and, by God, in a day it'll all be over. Dry up the spiles...