Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing, the weather has been bad, i.e., good.* There was an acute snow shortage. Days of bright sunshine softened the ski runs. Slush filled Cortina's streets. Flags of competing nations hung limp in the warm air. As the bobsled run slowly spoiled in the heat, national arguments developed over who should get a chance to practice. Italian Alpine troops were standing by to cart snow from colder slopes...
Even worse than the weather crisis, there was a lengthening casualty list...
...wrong weather is almost a tradition for Winter Olympics. At St. Moritz, in 1928, blinding snowstorms followed by unseasonable warmth almost wrecked the games; Lake Placid in 1932 all but melted in midwinter thaw; at Oslo, 20 years later, warm weather nearly wiped out competition...
...last year's floods, but the timetable had fallen apart long before. When commuters protested McGinnis' $12 million slash in maintenance funds since 1953, McGinnis snapped: "I've given these politicians everything they asked for." In summer, when air conditioning broke down, McGinnis explained that the weather was "too hot." In winter, when diesel locomotives stalled because crews failed to drain condensation coils, he claimed that his engines were "freezing...
...retired as a director after 30 continuous years on the board. Brought in by the House of Morgan in 1927 to scurf the accumulated rust off the company management, Lawyer Taylor, a recognized troubleshooter, did two important jobs for Big Steel. He reorganized its finances to weather the Depression, a decade later reorganized its labor policy to weather the social tides of the New Deal. In 1927-29 Taylor paid off $340 million on the company's bonded indebtedness so that when the crash came the company was financially secure. In 1937 he broke with the antilabor, coal...