Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...folds of draperies, in cosmetics, in crevices and corners of furniture. Quick tests showed a high content of arsenate of lead. The source of the deadly fallout: the painted roses of the ceiling. The experts also found that the heavily leaded paint exuded fumes in Rome's humid weather. The conclusion: for 20 months Ambassador Luce had been breathing arsenated fumes, had been eating food and drinking coffee powdered day after day with the deadly white dust...
...nominated by the Communist Party and elected unopposed) then began to debate the Bulganin pension plan. A comrade from hot Turkmenistan argued that people in hot climates ought to retire earlier and get pensions sooner (laughter), but a comrade from the chilly Ural Mountains countered that the hardy cold-weather Russians deserved even better from the republic. Several delegates observed that they did not like Bulganin's plan for 15% lower pensions for country dwellers (on the theory that countryfolk had little gardens and presumably would not go hungry). All in all 33 delegates were scheduled to speak...
Gould practices some broad eccentricities-he is likely to bundle up in overcoat and muffler in the hottest weather; he usually soaks his hands and arms in hot water before he begins to play. His fussiness about pianos is legendary-once he insisted that the keyboard had to be lowered one twenty-fifth of an inch. He sings off key while he is playing. "The piano is basically a percussive instrument, and the performer must imitate the vocal inflection," Gould explains...
...June was the best month in its 66-year history: starting in April, small-appliance sales climbed 69% over 1955, jumped another 22% in May and still more in June. After a cold, wet spring, Dallas, Chicago and Boston stores found a summer fillip in June's warm weather and clear skies, were even starting to move such heavy appliances as fans, air conditioners and power lawn mowers. Denver's steady population growth kept both soft and hard goods at boom levels, while in the Southeast discount houses were invading traditional department-store markets, forcing prices down...
...responsible physicist or meteorologist believes that atomic explosions have altered the world's weather. The Report of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences says: "No statistically significant changes in the weather during the first ten years of the Atomic Age have been found . . . Although it is not possible to prove that nuclear explosions have or have not influenced the weather, it is believed that such an effect is unlikely." British, German and Japanese scientists agree...