Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warmer mid-20-degree weather brought in by a snow-bearing low pressure system should not last long. By late Friday or Saturday, temperatures will have once again sunk to near zero depth...
...temporary low, bringing warmer weather and snow, is expected to relieve Cambridge late tonight. A second cold high, due in Thursday, will end this, however, once more pushing temperatures down near or below zero...
...success, two other ambitious young mountaineers, Parisian Jean Vincendon, 23, and Belgian François Henry, 22, decided to have a try at its challenging heights. They set out early in the morning of Dec. 22. The sky was blue and the air was warm, the kind of weather when skiers down below wish for snow. Four days later the skiers had their snow. Up above, the Alpine peaks were shrouded with ominous evidence of storm and fury. Torn between heartache and indignation, the people of Chamonix gazed aloft, muttered about laws to prevent off-season climbing, and gazed hopefully...
...Save Two Men. As long as the weather was bad, it made no difference what anyone said; nobody could have reached the climbers in any case. Two days later, however, when the sky cleared, a Piper Cub, filled with blankets, food and medicine, took off from the French air-force base at Le Fayet, 20 kilometers down the valley. With an Alpine guide aboard to plot the route, the little plane spotted the climbers on a treacherous northern slope close to the edge of a snow cliff that threatened to break away at any minute. The pilot could...
...never be-there are some things that, contrary to widespread fallacy, they can never do. They are no true test of a performer's popularity, because they are influenced by too many other factors, e.g., the programs that come before and after, the ones on competing stations, the weather, the time of day-even the season. Red Skelton's history on TV shows that a performer may be dropped because he is overwhelmed by his competition, later become a hit in another time slot...