Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know of the attack un til he heard the first bombs fall at 0755 hours on the morning of the 7th. "I thought it probably a maneuver, but rose and switched on the shortwave" to get the 8 o'clock news from Radio Tokyo. Twice during the weather forecast, the announcer reported "East wind, rain." That was the code signal indicating an attack against U.S. territory.* Yoshikawa immediately began burning his code books and other intelligence materials. When Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrived that day to pick him up for eventual repatriation, the only incriminating sign...
...last summer, largely because of the cool weather, sales hit a plateau, and Piel's looked around for an old-fashioned hard sell in the form of a jingle. Bert and Harry were seen less and less. Last week their $100,000 annual contract, owned by Goulding, Elliott and Edward Graham, the team's scriptwriter, expired. Young & Rubicam, Piel's advertising agency, did not renew it, instead tried to negotiate a new one for fewer commercials. Y. & R. explained that even though televiewers tuned in to programs just to hear the Bert and Harry ad, they...
...side, the exact figure depending on the altitude of the satellite and the slant at which it is viewing the earth. The narrow-angle camera covers an area 75 miles on a side. Its job is to observe cloud formations in fine detail, showing individual thunderclouds and other weather minutiae...
...take good pictures, but the wide-angle camera balked. There is some chance that it will take better pictures later, or that it can be "repaired" by deft electronic twiddling from stations on earth. Even if it never does function properly, the narrow-angle camera alone will yield valuable weather information. But the scientists who interpret the cloud pictures will have to take special pains to identify the places around the earth that are covered by its Rhode Island-size snapshots...
...three weeks in raw November weather he steered a canoe down the Brazos, alone except for an unruly Dachshund pup and chance riverbank acquaintances. He hunted and fished sparingly, thought a good deal, stopped often to poke about in the ruins of a settler's cabin or the barely traceable midden of an Indian camp. Graves's record of the journey is an eloquent elegy. While the author makes it clear that he finds one era fascinating and the other dull, he does not make the sentimentalist's mistake of saying "that Texans were nobler...