Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inaugural day weather in Washington, D.C. was in perfect accord with the snow job to which the nation was subjected during the Los Angeles Convention and the campaign...
After taking a close 64-62 decision from Amherst last Thursday, the varsity basketball team ran afoul of the weather and the Yale five Saturday night in New Haven and went down to an 81-57 defeat...
...inability to decide on a man to fill Manhattan's borough presidency, automatically vacated when Hulan Jack was convicted and received a suspended sentence on charges of conflict of interest and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Still hesitating, Wagner postponed an election meeting with Manhattan councilmen, using the weather as an excuse. Outcome of this week's snow-checked meeting, with both Wagner and De Sapio predicting victory for their candidates, was pretty foggy...
...department store sales were 5% below year-earlier levels for the last week reported, largely because of bad weather. Manhattan's Industrial Commodity Corp., a private economic forecasting firm, held out hope for better times ahead. It reported that new orders and retail sales of consumer nondurable goods have begun to climb after mid-1960 dips. While new orders are still running behind retail sales, the forecasting firm figures that they are reverting to the closely similar pattern the two have held for years (see chart), and expects a further rise. It also feels that apparel sales are bound...
...more likely to run across a PATHETIC FALLACY than an abominable snowman. But he will be wrong. The term was originated by English Critic John Ruskin "to describe the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects," and has been described as "a confusion of actual meteorological conditions with the weather in the soul." Any moviegoer or TV watcher-dimly aware that acts of love seem to occur in the presence of windblown oatfields or sexily curling surf, and that crises seldom take place without timpani and brass on the sound track-is the plaything of the pathetic fallacy...