Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomber is over, they could win for Communism a cold-war victory over the most powerful armed force ever assembled-an armed force that in the here and now is the free world's only deterrent to major aggression and, in the familiar words of its weather-beaten air men, a loaded pistol pointed squarely at Khrushchev's head...
...learned by heart in daily briefings in the U.S. and in Morocco, photographic and radar pictures of their preassigned targets in Russia, routes of approach and getaway, estimates of enemy defenses and radar capabilities, the latest of the global Strategic Air Command's four-hourly reports on the weather over the Soviet Union (cloudy to overcast more than half the time, necessitating radar bombing). Sidi Slimane's alert force met its deadline...
...hemisphere producers are grumbling loudly. "I've always felt [the Americans] were fair-weather friends," said an official of the Canadian Metal Mining Association. "When the pinch is on-wham! Someone starts talking tariffs." Peruvians say that any tariff hike, no matter how small, will put most of the country's lead and zinc producers out of business, cost the country 14% of its export income...
...persistent rumor that the Russians had sent up a rocket timed to hit the moon Nov. 7, the parade was an anticlimax. Though Rome's Communist daily L'Unità had confidently predicted that the day would be fine, because "Soviet experts are capable of creating good weather," the Moscow sky was so overcast that the scheduled Red air force flypast had to be canceled...
FEED-GRAIN CROP will grow to new high this year, slice pork prices next summer. Because of favorable weather and 47-million-ton carryover from surplus in earlier years, output of feed corn, oats, barley and grain sorghums will rise 6% to 213 million tons...