Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another possible impediment to a productive Reagan-Gorbachev meeting was the Administration's decision to go ahead with an underground nuclear test in Nevada last week after a two-day delay that had been caused by bad weather. The Soviet Union, which had adopted a self-imposed moratorium on nuclear testing last August, denounced the U.S. action and said that the U.S.S.R. too would resume testing. The Soviet news agency TASS described the U.S. test, which was code-named Mighty Oak, as a "dangerous destabilizing step" and an indication that the Reagan Administration "is still chasing the will...
...green-grass-conscious University has long prohibited freshmen frisbee fanatics from frolicking in spring weather. But now, thanks to the "open university," the irate 'shmen are fighting back. If they can't have their frisbees on the smelly fertilizer, then divestment activists certainly can't have an ivory tower--taking up the space of thousands of frisbees but not helping anyone burn off calories...
...Nashville these days, citizens skip discussions of the weather to ask, "Are you rotating?" Music City, U.S.A., turning on to the latest pop dance fad? Not quite. Instead, Nashville has embraced the newest fat fighters' miracle: the rotation diet. Local restaurants are featuring meals from the plan's menu; grocery stores are posting signs touting approved fruits, vegetables and other foods. So popular has the plan become that an estimated 70,000 residents, about 10% of the city's population, are now rotating feverishly, caught up in a mad whirl to "Melt-a-Million" pounds collectively by mid-May. They...
This year the sunny weather attracted approximately 120 students for the celebration, which operates on a BYOP (Bring Your Own Pot) basis. The turnout was significantly higher than last year, when no students showed...
...weather played a factor," Bickleyexplained, "We shouldn't have lost...