Word: weatherized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...referred to was the Spirit of St. Louis. MacCracken said Robertson had "assured me that there would not be another repeat performance and that he would phone St. Louis and give instructions that you were not to take off for Chicago if there was the slightest doubt about the weather at that end of the route...
...presidential jet took off at 7:30. Sadat traveled in his own compartment, a tastefully decorated section furnished with swivel chairs, two soft corner couches, a TV set and an electronics board that flashed the altitude, speed, time and weather. On the walls were satellite photographs of Egypt, including one of the Sinai Peninsula. On the desk was a vase of yellow flowers...
...pavement. This time 336 Soviet heavy weapons and mechanized vehicles clattered through Red Square, compared with 151 in 1976. Some of the speeches, too, were steelier. The mighty bash-televised live throughout the Soviet Union-opened with a blunt address by Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. Standing in subfreezing weather, with his Politburo colleagues, atop Lenin's mausoleum, Ustinov, 69, made the obligatory bow to "the struggle for peace, détente and disarmament," then launched into vigorous affirmation of Moscow's determination "to further strengthen our armed capabilities" so that no potential foe "will risk violating our peaceful...
Cooper added, "One example would be meteorology, where they had to take one out of the 20 worst possible weather situations rather than the average of weather conditions for the report...
...problems that Harvard has encountered the past two autumns could be explained away by citing various factors--the weather in last fall's 9-3 loss to Cornell, the psychological let-down in this autumn's 20-7 defeat by Princeton, the bad play selection in the clutch against Brown a week later...