Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the tested model, Stephens designed a sleek, hard-charging champion that beat beautifully to windward, cut cleanly through the sea. Britain's Boyd built a barrel-chested challenger that bobbed too much in rough weather, slid off badly to windward. White-haired Cornelius ("Corny") Shields, Columbia's tactician during last summer's trials, put his racing-wise finger on Sceptre's big shortcoming: "She's too full forward and too fine...
Ever since it "lost" the hurricane of 1938, which hit New England almost without warning, the Weather Bureau has sought a really dependable way of tracking hurricanes. Watching their movements from high-flying airplanes is costly, intermittent and dangerous. Radars help a lot, but what they show is belts of rain, which may be far from the center of the storm...
...there is any doubt about the weather tomorrow, the burden of making a decision will fall upon Charles Segar, acting commissioner in the absence of the convalescent Ford Frick...
Milwaukee, Sept. 30--Chilly winds, cloudy skies, and hot-coffee weather prevailed today as the Milwaukee Braves and New York Yankees tuned up for tomorrow's opening World Series game...
...north in Ludington, Mich., Gene and Pauline Skerbeck were toughing it out with their Sunday school (clean, no girlie shows, no flatties). The weather was bringing in bloomers, and though Pauline burned blessed palm leaves in her trailer, the red ones were few and far between. A strip act might have pulled more of a crowd, but Pauline was against it. "We're Catholics, you see. I always tell people that ask where the girl show is that they should save their $1.50 and get their wives to take off their clothes and dance around nude at home...