Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...testified, was clear, with good visibility and a full view of the moon. As Stockholm sliced eastward from New York Harbor toward Nantucket lightship, he was bothered only by ocean currents that pulled the ship two or three miles northward off course, and by the need to keep a weather eye on the duty helmsman, who was sometimes "more interested in sur rounding things than in the compass...
Smooth That Wrinkle. Jackie refuses to share a platform with Saund ("I'm the popular national figure; why should I give him the publicity?"); Instead she darts around the district on her own, outfitted for frequent changes of clothes in the hot weather (she believes that a rumpled woman candidate wins no votes) and armed with a card catalogue on issues. She is well up on unique valley-farm problems such as irrigation and the astronomical cost of good land, promises to try to bring small business into the area if elected. Last week, when a listener asked...
...liquor, soap, cement, power, textiles, cotton-ginning, sugar-milling, air transport, merchant shipping, even a barbershop-an estimated 430 properties. "You'd do the same thing yourself if you were in my place," he used to explain. Nicaragua advanced a little; e.g., more than 600 miles of all-weather roads were built to connect the Somoza properties, but it remains a poor (yearly per capita income: $245), dusty, undeveloped country...
Toward five o'clock, the team begins to fade. The grunts of sheer animal exertion are modulated into long sighs of fatigue. Duffy whistles the men together. "You were logy," he says quietly. "I don't know why-maybe it's the weather. Now we're going to run you, because that's the only way you'll stay in shape. Let's take some wind sprints...
...entered the casting room. The large room was scattered with broken furniture, the floors were bare, the walls empty. The director's welcome echoed against the dirty windows while the producer smiled reassuringly from behind an ancient desk. They chatted for a few moments about the play and the weather--the director, the producer, and the young actress...