Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weather was just miserable, so it's good to come out with a win on a day like this," Harvard Coach Bob Scalise said. "This is what it's like in England...
Brilliant, however, is an appropriate term for both Crimson goals yesterday afternoon, inasmuch as anything can be brilliant in such miserable weather...
...Khrushchev's voice is evident as he recalls toying with Washington after the Soviets shot down a U-2 spy plane in 1960 and captured Pilot Gary Powers. The U.S., thinking the plane had been destroyed and the pilot killed, initially insisted that the aircraft had been on a weather reconnaissance mission. "After they . . . got thoroughly wound up in this unbelievable story, we decided to tell the world what had really happened," says Khrushchev. Eisenhower, who had recorded his recollections in 1967, is heard explaining his side. "When I saw what a terrible mess this lie had made . . . I just...
...ugly scythings. Many adopted a policy of savage self-preservation, all sentiment heaved overboard like ballast. Husbands deserted stricken wives, parents abandoned children. The corpses of even the wealthy were carted off unattended, to be shoveled under without ceremony or prayer. One-tenth of the population died before cold weather came in the fall and killed the mosquitoes...
That quality has helped him weather a recent ebbing of confidence in his government. First came the revelation last January that military intelligence officers played a role in the 1984 death of Henry Liu, a Chinese-American writer who was murdered in his California home. Vice Admiral Wang Hsi-ling, former head of the Defense Ministry's intelligence bureau, was convicted in June of plotting Liu's death. Along with two gangsters who carried out the murder, Wang was given a life sentence. The trials were unusually open for Taiwan, but many felt that the harsh punishment was intended largely...