Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your Best." Part of it was good. Considering her age, the white-haired old lady had recovered amazingly well. She was enjoying the cold sunny weather and the shouts of bobsledders in the snowy street outside. She ate well, listened to the radio, had her daughter read her the Kansas City Star and the Congressional Record, as usual. Both her legs were in plaster casts, but she felt little pain, showed no signs of contracting pneumonia...
Pollster George Gallup moistened a finger and forecast unfavorable weather for the G.O.P. If a presidential election were held now, he reported, 51% of the nation's voters would mark the Democratic ticket. It was the first Democratic majority he had noted since last...
Endurance. The weather was as somber as the darkest economic forecasts. This week the sun came out brightly for a few hours-for the first time in 22 days. In the 66 years London's Kew Observatory had been keeping tabs, there had never been such a long sunless period. Snow, icy gales and subfreezing temperatures were also out for endurance records. All week long there was frost, without a break. Reported the weatherman: "It's very rare to have continuous frost for more than three days; this sort of thing doesn't happen more than half...
...support three little-theater groups, a good art gallery, a vigorous symphony orchestra and, this season, some 50 concerts. Even so, the world premiere last week of Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten was Columbus' big cultural and social event. Undiscouraged by bitter weather, the city's elite honored it as such...
...commodity prices, which had temporarily leveled off in January, were on the rise again. (Hogs reached this week the alltime high of $29 per cwt.) But the rise was viewed by economic crystal gazers as a last fling before prices settled down, as a result of temporary factors (bad weather and large Government grain purchases for export) rather than any new inflationary steam. At "the speed with which industry was spouting out goods last week, the time when supply would meet demand in most things-and when prices would settle down for good-did not seem...