Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eatherly never dropped a bomb in World War II. He served Stateside until his 509th Composite Group was picked for the atomic raids. He was assigned to be weather scout on the Hiroshima run. He checked the visibility over Hiroshima, then radioed the go-ahead to the Enola Gay, carrying the bomb. Returning to base without seeing the explosion, Eatherly was virtually ignored, while the crew of the Enola Gay got all the glory...
...like Christmas at Splinter Stadium yesterday. The weather would have chilled a polar bear, and Harvard's baseball team played Santa Claus with a bag of gifts that included five errors. When the festivities were over, Boston College found itself in possession of a 9-6 victory...
Pinter makes arresting drama out of platitudes. His characters are listless nobodies who prattle witlessly about the weather, the neighbors, about eating and sleeping. Cooped up in wretched little rooms, they fondle material possessions and mull over memories like savages, so drugged by habit that paltry incidents pass for news. They soak up mundane sensory experience through a screen of simple-minded, petulant prejudices...
Sophomore ace Chris Pardee won his ballyhooed high jump clash with John Hartnett, beating the Tiger captain at 6 ft., 6 1/4 in. on fewer misses. Cold weather held both jumpers well below their peak height of 6 ft., 9 in., although Pardee went over the bar twice at 6 ft., 8 in., only to knock it off with his trailing...
Changed Signs. In Manhattan, instead of WHITE ONLY, the signs said DISHWASHER WANTED. So Poitier washed dishes. He slept in 5? pay toilets or, if the weather was warm, on a rooftop. He joined the army in 1943, lying about his age, which was 16. He was made an orderly in a mental hospital, and a little over a year later was discharged with nervous complications...