Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grenada, election day 1984 dawned as a tropical idyl: clear skies and sunshine, with brief spells of rain to break the sultry Caribbean heat. The splendid morning weather helped make a large turnout seem as inevitable as the arrival of the winter cruise ships in St. George's, the capital. At churches, schools and even discotheques, 85% of the island's 48,000 voters lined up for their first free elections since 1976. The balloting was described by an observer from the Organization of American States as "flawless." So, from the point of view of the Reagan Administration...
...Knopf; 107 pages; $25). They embellish quilts and samplers, weather vanes and water jars, chests, chairs, tavern signs and tombstones. Authors Cynthia V.A. Schaffner and Susan Klein, both of New York City's Museum of American Folk Art, celebrate the heart's presence in American folk decoration. The image pervaded the culture of the young country and on the evidence of this book reached its zenith among the Pennsylvania Germans. The new immigrants painted their bright, elaborate designs on pottery and furniture, inked them on love letters, and even incorporated them into birth certificates. Amid these ebullient displays...
...Florida took out an ad in show business trade papers with an illustration of one of the most famous sights in Southern California, the hill that displays the giant sign HOLLYWOOD. But where those nine letters should have been, an artist had superimposed seven different ones: FLORIDA. "Hollywood weather without Hollywood overhead," read the caption below...
...word of Hat Trick began leaking almost as soon as the plan was launched about four weeks ago. Federal officials said last week that while the scheme had been "modestly successful," American and Colombian press reports had helped warn drug traffickers of the supposedly clandestine operation. Bad weather may have hurt the operation by delaying the harvest and the shipments. Nevertheless, Operation Hat Trick will continue...
With each passing year the Nov. 7 parade before a lineup of Kremlin leaders atop the Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square has come to resemble a mystery play rather than a military pageant. Leonid Brezhnev died only three days after he made a faltering appearance in biting weather in 1982. His ailing successor, the late Yuri Andropov, gave hints of his imminent demise when he failed to show up for last year's ceremony. This year it was Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov who was missing. Questioned by a Western reporter, Politburo Member Viktor Grishin allowed that Ustinov...