Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wind, weather and the commonplace headaches of sophisticated technology have kept the anonymously donated Science Center fountain from functioning as expected this winter...
...sentiment and his own bad poetry, has just been given an ultimatum by Martha Coftin (Debra Staniunas), his something-more-than-shrewish wife: five days to clean up his act and cut out the poetry, or else. A reasonable request. "Can't you talk of something else besides the weather, vegetables, and domestic animals?" Nicholas demands, as he proceeds to undertake this task with twice as much time as Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy but with only half the wit. Luckily for him, the Devil (Bill Saunders) intervenes at just the right moment, stepping out inexplicably from the cupboard...
...fellow owners is the U.S.F.L.'s plan to move to the fall in its fourth year. Says he: "I don't like it at all. We've done well. But the league decided, and we have to go along." Critics thought that the spectacle of 100 degrees football weather and electric fans to cool players on the sidelines gave the league the look of a fish out of water. "If you want to play big-time football, you have to play it in its natural environment," says Myles Tanenbaum, co-owner of the Stars. "Trying to convince fans otherwise...
Bilbao Sondica Airport in Spain's northern Basque country has a notorious history of foggy weather and low cloud cover. But last Tuesday morning, the skies were clear as Iberia Airlines Flight 610 from Madrid began its landing approach. A few moments later, only 19 miles from the airport, the plane struck the tip of a 177-ft.-high television antenna on Mount Oiz (elevation 3,366 ft.), burst into flames and crashed into a wooded hillside. All 148 people aboard were killed. Three Americans were among the passengers, as was Bolivia's Minister of Labor, Gonzalo Guzman...
...notes, which begin on September 29, 1792 and appear to be part of a larger journal, chronicle the scenery, wildlife and weather viewed by Macartney during his stay in China...