Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pushed too hard, the Soviets might just be willing to start another Korea, this time using North Vietnamese to do the fighting. Equally weighty advice came from the Pentagon, whose planners found the prospects dismaying. With no seaport, jet airfields or railroad, with only 500 miles of all-weather roads (the main road between Vientiane and the outside world runs along the Mekong, is under water six months of the year), backward Laos is an ideal buffer zone but a terrible battleground...
...line began forming at midnight, though the weather was so cold that the imperial moat in the heart of Tokyo was glazed over with ice. Next morning, as the gates swung open, a crowd of 8,000 Japanese in holiday dress shuffled across the famed double bridge and onto the expanse of grass where the great wooden palace had stood until leveled by American bombs. Shyly smiling, stooped but trim, Emperor Hirohito stepped to the front of a white platform and waved a languid New Year's blessing to the crowd...
...people overeat because what Dr. Jolliffe calls the "appestat" is set too high. The appestat, which adjusts the appetite to keep weight constant, is located, says Jolliffe, in the hypothalamus -near the body's temperature, sleep and water-balance controls. Physical exercise raises the appestat. So does cold weather...
...Western observers are convinced that drought and floods can be blamed for the shortages. They point out that Japanese weather reports show little unusual weather over China during the year, suspect that the "natural calamities" may have been invented or exaggerated by Red propagandists to account for a shortage of food really attributable to the Communist regime's drive to siphon off food for export abroad to pay for the machines and supplies needed to build up Red China's industry. One U.S. expert said the 1960 crop may actually have been "a little bit ahead...
...strip, along with one C-54 four-engined transport and four C46 twin-engined Curtiss Commandos. The strip will accommodate these ships, but to say that it will handle jets was an overstatement: it is only 6,000 ft. long, marginal for jets in Guatemala's hot weather...