Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity tennis team's match at Amherst was rained out yesterday, but will be played this afternoon, weather permitting. The varsity is heavily favored, despite the fact that Amherst has several excellent players, among them the Hicks brothers and Tom Richardson...
Operation Hardtack, the U.S. nuclear test program at Eniwetok, will get under way this week, weather permitting. Already 10,000 men, 100 ships and 120 aircraft of Air Force Major General Alvin Luedecke's Joint Task Force Seven are deployed around Eniwetok's dazzling white coral atolls at the heart of a 590,000-sq.-mi. mid-Pacific "danger zone." From April through August Task Force Seven expects to set off 26 to 30 nuclear explosions, ranging from 50 kilotons to several megatons, from test towers, in mid-air and beneath the sea. Programed highlights...
...Neill. A Terrible Beauty is a plain tale, honest as a pair of well-cobbled brogans. Unhappily, every now and then Roth remembers that writing about Ireland is supposed to be a bit on the poetic side, and sets up a keen about the scenery or the weather. The only terrible beauty in the book belongs to W. B. Yeats and the title, but there is a terrible logic about...
Such a strategy shows that Tufts, by necessity, is using the contest as almost a practice game, and much the same holds true for the Crimson. Bad weather cut down outdoor workouts for both squads last week, and Tufts used its diamond yesterday for the first time this year...
...possessed had long since faded from his face and only a remnant of fire burned behind his tired and blurry eyes. Not even his faith in radicalism, a movement to which he had devoted the greater part of his life, had been able to hold back the wrinkled and weather-beaten appearance he presented. Leaning back in his chair, he re-lit his pipe, and assumed a reflective fixity in his rendezvous with the past...