Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Painstakingly the author follows Hess through every stage of his secret preparation. As an ex-World War I pilot and the No. 3 man in Nazi Germany, Hess easily managed to finagle the use for "practice flights" of an experimental Messerschmidt 110 with extra gas tanks. Aides surreptitiously collected weather charts. Though Leaser's attempt to weld such details into a tale of step-by-step suspense is not entirely successful, his account has some touching vignettes of Hess-playing with his four-year-old son for the last time; standing uncertainly in the door of his wife...
...weather has forced competition for New England intercollegiate team sailing championship into its third weekend, with only the final series between Harvard and Coast Guard remaining. Strong winds and rain made it virtually impossible to sail all the scheduled races last Saturday and Sunday...
...weekend the regatta continued on the Thames river in New London, Conn., dispite the heavy wind and rain. There Crimson skippers Carter Ford, Mike Horn, Mike Lehmann, and Dave Stookey left BU far behind in four consecutive encounters, earning a berth in the finals to be held this weekend, weather permitting. At the same time Coast Guard defeated MIT five...
...lived out at camps in the forest near Flagstaff, Arizona, and worked for the U.S. Forest Service. I worked outdoors nearly all the time. During this time, a period of about ten months, I did not have a single cold even though I was exposed to some pretty rough weather. I had the feeling that I was observing something unusual and significant. What I had done was to rediscover a method of climate modification which had been worked out by my ancestors long ago, and then lost. But the method has not been lost at all in the ancestral home...
...middle-aged wholesale grocer from Glasgow), nor Fish Benjie, nor Mrs. Morran, nor any of the barefoot boys from Glasgow who sing Communist songs to the old Scots tunes. These novels were written in the not so dim and distant 20's. The characters were out in the weather a great deal. Some of the days were beautiful, but most of the time it was cold, or foggy, or raining. But nobody ever has a sniffle in these adventures...