Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hurricane Audrey, the season's first, was born as a Gulf of Mexico squall in a wide low-pressure area. As it blew north, U.S. weather bureaus warned the Gulf Coast that a dangerously violent storm was on the way. But the bayou people of extreme southwestern Louisiana felt secure in their swamp-girded isolation and their simple faiths ("I wasn't much afraid," said one woman, "because the Lord told us he would never destroy this earth with water again"). Many of them stayed in their homes-and Audrey killed them in a day of sheerest horror...
...most newspapers each day feature syndicated TV critics and program previews, give free rein to scores of local' TV columnists. Though many newspapers balked for years at carrying radio program listings without charge, the great majority of dailies now carry TV logs as routinely as they run weather forecasts. In fact, says San Francisco News Editor Charles H. Schneider, "television is the weather in every living room. It is the news...
...naval support, from the ferrying job to naval gunfire, but he necessarily refights much of the battle for the beaches -and does it with freshness and sharp detail. What seems plain is that the Germans ensured Allied success by a series of blunders: they concluded that the weather was not right for an invasion when it came; they canceled a routine E-boat patrol that might have discovered the coming attack; and they swallowed the carefully planted notion that General Patton was waiting to turn a whole Army group loose on the Pas de Calais. To meet...
...Boston got that way has been writen down in the involved accounts of many long books. The Puritans are blamed, or the Irish, or the Italians, or the weather, or Curley, or Beacon Hill, or the Red Sox, or social forces...
...hope the Festival Committee will not heed the critic of the Globe, who complained that a light and gay opera ought to have been picked for warm weather. I am sick of the idiotic policy of calling a moratorium on serious plays and operas of high quality during the summer months. The audiences certainly appreciate the chance of seeing this fine work, heat...