Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strange in some ways. The people talk like books here and it's cold: both the people and the weather," Aubrey Jackson Jr. from Pine Bluff, Arkansas said yesterday. Jackson added that he plans to attend Harvard "but I'm not going to kiss the ground or anything...
...NEXT MORNING'S weather--the wind and rain in New Jersey and the occasional tornadoes further south--should have told us all we needed to know. Instead we drove through the drizzle to Teterboro, a town with ten inhabitants, an efficient (as we would discover) police force, and a busy, private-commercial airport with 15,000 employees. That morning, it seemed, all 15,000 had called in sick. Little airplanes squatted in neat rows, roped to the tarmac to brace against the wind. A flag flapped and clanked above us. Nothing stirred on the runway, or in our parking...
...showed us pictures of St. Thomas, and encouraged us to sleep late the next morning. But instead we repacked and tried Morristown Airport and Caldwell Airport and, it seemed, every other airfield in New Jersey. We never found the tanned young man. We had bad luck: the wrong weather, the wrong days of the week, the wrong time of year. But it was more than bad luck, everyone told us: in the last two years, hijackers and insurance companies and too much publicity have taken almost all of the wind out of air hitchhikers' sails. Corporate jets won't take...
...Radcliffe sailors also ventured into rough seas over the weekend, finishing a close third behind MIT and the University of Rhode Island in the blustery weather off the Charles...
...weather isn't too cold, people sit out front. If it is hot, the open air is the only air conditioning they get. And at least the street lights still burn. Indoors, electricity is scarce, and few people can afford to keep lights burning after supper...