Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Viva! Mexico was ready for him. The weather was perfect-hot, bright, dry. Hundreds of thousands cheered him as he rode through the city, flanked by noisy coveys of brown-uniformed federal motorcycle policemen. When he made an appearance at the national stadium he was greeted by waves of applause, bugle calls, band music and a thunderous 21-gun salute...
Dolan, champing at the arrival of the Equinox, has stolen the march on New England weather and the rest of the University by being the first 1947 summer seersucker jacket in the Yard. The nattiest of his four cotton Brooks Brothers models stood between his knitted tie and North Atlantic winds yesterday, as less hardy specimens still relied on tweed and corduroy...
...spite of balmy Cambridge weather, the skiers will continue to race well into April. Next week will see the Edson Memorial Trophy race at Franconia and the Schussverein Downhill at Bear Mountain; the following weekend, the team will revisit Bear Mountain for the Drifters Ski Club's downhill team races...
Pressure flying continues to grow more & more exact. Nowadays, airplanes in flight send hourly weather reports to the CAA's station WSY in New York. WSY edits the information and broadcasts its essentials at 25-minute intervals to other planes. By merely listening and figuring, a pilot can tell where to find the friendliest tail winds...
...what Author Bates has to say on this age-old theme is neither novel nor especially interesting. Apart from its dramatic narrative, the book's impressive qualities are those of Bates's best short stories-a fine perceptiveness in matters of wind, weather and atmosphere, displayed in clean-cut, economical prose...