Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic wringer. Furriers made the most of the easy-money period during the war and immediately afterwards. When OPA controls came off, prices of luxury furs doubled; medium-priced furs went up 50%. The buying rush has come to an abrupt end because of 1) the unseasonable warm weather, 2) fur imports from abroad, and 3) buyers' resistance to the high prices...
...cook, who abhorred pots, would beat together a pair of Shell gasoline tins and roast the big bird over "one of those vertical blow torches known as Primus stoves." Nevertheless, there would be open house Christmas Day at the Zinder's home on the Nile, and the weather promised to be typical for Egypt in December: clear, warm and cloudless...
...slaughterhouse area livestock is still floated in by barge from New Jersey, is still led to the killing sheds by a cynical Judas sheep. On a vacant lot near the Consolidated laundry, Italian workmen still bowl through the intricacies of bocce every day the weather permits. Sidewalks are littered with old refuse, crumbling walls chalked with ancient obscenities...
...Weather & Magnetism. The icy winds which howl off the icecap affect the whole world's weather. Little is known about these winds. The Navy's meteorologists will study Antarctica's storms, using everything from sounding balloons to radar. They will take the temperature at all depths of the cold Antarctic seas, clock the powerful currents that surge northward to affect the climate of South America, Australia and Africa. The data they collect should help stay-at-home weathermen...
...Adam! You're home early.' " Adam is worried about weather, crops, and his son Cain, who is a wild spirit. Eve comforts him: "God has been kinder to us than we deserved.' "' Than we deserved ! It was your - "'Yes, I know. ... You remind me of it often enough. It's my fault that we're here now instead of in the Garden of Eden. But... we have each other, Adam.' " 'Yes, that's true. But I wish you wouldn't talk so much when I come home tired...