Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After bitter storm and snow struck much of the drought belt this month, forlorn farmers held out the bright hope that the weather cycle might have turned for good. Last week U.S. Weather Bureau long-range forecasters brightened the hope even more, reported that "recent upper-air circulation patterns are changing . . .the severe drought may not return in the coming growing season." Meaning: bigger crops, happier farmers. Probable consequences: more surpluses and plenty of new headaches for Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson...
...satellite is not supposed to be a military weapon. His stated reason for secrecy is that the presence of reporters, photographers, TV cameras and other representatives of the public's interest may rush his men into launching the satellite before they are completely ready or when the weather is not completely favorable...
...MODERNIZATION board, to set up unified traffic-control system for both commercial and military planes, is planned by Administration, may lead ultimately to new Cabinet-level boss for civil aviation. If Congress approves, as expected, board will include Secretaries of Defense and Commerce plus impartial chairman. Ultimate goal: all-weather, 24-hour positive control of every airborne plane...
This was true: Belloc studied his battlefields on foot, marching as the armies had marched, waking and sleeping as they had done. His great purple passages describing the storm or sunshine that had attended great events were not Bellocian inventions. Weather and walking were his passions, and it is no accident that they are at the heart of two of his most popular books, The Path to Rome and The Four...
Wish You Were Here. In Jackson, Miss., the U.S. Weather Bureau reported observing one morning at 11:35 ". . . unquestionably the most beautiful thing in all the heavens ... a magnificent display of iridescent clouds. We saw numerous splotches among the cirrus clouds of gorgeous opalescent rose pinks, emerald greens and turquoise blues. It occurred in a small area about 15 degrees from the sun and lasted only about 15 minutes. It can be fully explained, but only in the language of a meteorologist. However, it can be said that it was only a fragment of a giant halo due to unusually...