Word: weatherized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst case, rotate scheduled blackouts among the communities it serves. A similar rotation of brief blackouts was imposed on Jan. 17 by Virginia Electric & Power and the Southern Co. when demand for heating during the big freeze-combined with equipment shutdowns elsewhere due to the freezing weather -threatened to overload their systems...
...region are suffering their worst water shortage in nearly a quarter of a century. With most of the Far West and large stretches of the Midwest also in the throes of a prolonged dry spell (see map), the acting director of the Department of Agriculture's crop weather reporting service, Lyle Benny, cites 1977 as the worst drought year overall for the U.S. since the 1950s...
...Good Weather. Despite the dismal future facing most refugees, good weather at sea has led to an increasing number of escape attempts in the past two months. Since April, 244 Vietnamese have made the 1,000-mile crossing to Hong Kong; they were accepted when the U.N. guaranteed that it would cover their expenses and speed their departure after three months. About 2,000 have arrived in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines. Most are packed into squalid refugee camps, hoping for resettlement elsewhere...
...even decades, has the nation approached its vacation time in such a collectively peaceful disposition?a mood of relief, resignation, exuberant ease and a bit of hedonism. The season feels like something from the middle years of Eisenhower?or, since the '50s had the cold war and other bad weather, maybe the analogy should go farther back, to a vague, green period sometime...
...trail. Some escapees have sprinkled pepper on their shoes or changed clothes -to no avail. Sloshing through a stream works, at least until the fugitive steps on dry ground and the dog is able to pick up the scent again. Surprisingly, a runaway's best defense is dry weather, which can often blend all local smells together, making them indistinguishable to a hound. Thus when thunderstorms hit the Cumberlands last week after a dry spell, Don Daugherty knew by his old mountaineer's instinct that Ray's hours of freedom were coming to an end. "Rain washes...