Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dismissed on the eve of Challenger's launch. The seals had long been flagged as a problem that could be aggravated by low temperatures. Yet George Hardy, Marshall's deputy director of science and engineering, declared that he was "appalled" by Thiokol's reasoning that the cape's cold weather, predicted to be in the 30s at lift-off, should lead to a delay. In the now notorious teleconference, four Thiokol vice presidents at first concurred with the fears of their engineers. But when they heard the NASA objections, they decided to take a "management" vote in which the engineers...
Father's melancholy and Mother's sunny disposition determine the weather that pervades the book. It breaks over the breakfast table, at Thanksgiving dinner and during vacations at the family's summer house in Maine. Time takes big jumps, and each episode finds the Vincents older. The girls begin dating, smoking and drinking, and the boys start sneaking off for marijuana nightcaps. Dad grows increasingly predictable ("nothing more normal than for him to be standing in the shade at a family picnic holding a can of beer"), and then Mother is dead...
...rains? Rain will likely destroy the entire celebration. Whereas Harvard usually sets up alternative sites for other gala events, like Commencement, the University has set up no contingency plans for the events in case of bad weather...
...proctors called the revisions overall "harmful" in a University poll, conducted after the lottery had been completed. One proctor added on the poll, "If this is an attempt to reduce anxiety level, I would say that it's not working. If it's a distraction from academics and the weather, it's working...
Although tradition has it that it never rains on the first Thursday in June, bad-weather plans do exist. In the event of a downpour, the ceremonies would proceed as usual, although in somewhat shortened form, Lichten adds...