Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that evening, as the Sacred Cow bounced through dirty weather over West Virginia to a landing at the National Airport, the President braced himself for a sterner audience: the G.O.P.-controlled Soth Congress...
...Tansey got the latest weather report. A ground mist was hanging over Rineanna Field at Shannon. It had all but "socked in" the airdrome; the ceiling was at 500 feet, the minimum for night landings there. Perhaps the Star of Cairo might have to go to Prestwick, Scotland, or another alternate field. Anyhow, there was plenty of time to decide...
...Christmas Eve, Pilot George B. Sprada had radioed that he was at 7,000 feet and could see the San Diego field 60 miles away in the sparkling clear night. A few minutes later, ranchers saw a flame on the mountain top. Then the weather closed in. It was three days later that a cowboy came upon what was left...
Stubborn, high-strung Ted Schroeder, ex-Navy flyer and onetime U.S. singles champion (in 1942), never could sleep soundly the night before a big tennis match. Sometimes he got out of bed in disgust and ate a 4 a.m. breakfast. Last week, the hot, humid weather in Melbourne was no help. And it was no help either that he was the unexpected dark-horse choice to help Jack Kramer (TIME, Dec. 30) win the Davis Cup back from the Australians...
Other icemen: Dr. Irving Langmuir and Vincent J. Schaefer of General Electric, the only men who have done anything about the weather. On Nov. 13, they proved that they could turn a cold cloud into snow by sprinkling it with dry ice (TIME, Nov. 25). Last week, Schaefer told of a further triumph. He walked into a cold ground fog swinging a wire basket of dry ice round his head. The fog parted, leaving a lane, as the Red Sea water parted for the Children of Israel...