Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...atmosphere if the sky filled with smoke and ashes from cities burning during a nuclear war. The answer was the chilling vision of a "nuclear winter" that would blot out the sun and end life on earth. Unmanned satellites help verify arms-control treaties, map ocean currents and weather patterns, even locate mineral deposits...
...exhilaration quickened. "It was put together in a hell of a hurry," said Pilot Walker with apparent delight. On the appointed day, turbulent winds of up to 80 m.p.h. at high altitude postponed the liftoff from Cape Canaveral. But nearly everything that NASA could control, it did. When the weather calmed down the next morning, the black-and-white bird threaded skyward only 70 milliseconds late. The one-day delay meant that the launch came on Gardner's birthday, and he promised "not to blow out the candle until 8½ minutes into the flight," when the main engines...
...Crimson, playing in Antarctic weather on Ohiri, dominated play to such an extent that Harvard goalkeeper Matt Ginsburg did not have to make a single save until three minutes into the second half...
...computers in 1980, for example fewer than five minutes separated the finger from the button. Airline navigation is a similarly dramatic example; bad data in a flight plan program is the suspected cause of a 1979 Air New Zealand crash that killed 257 passengers, the pilots, flying in poor weather were told by a navigation computer that they were over water when in fact they were head; g straight for a mountain-side. Investigators have hypothesized that similar problems confused the pilots of Korean Airlines flight 007 that was shot down by Soviet fighters after it strayed off course...
...attributes his general healthiness this year to the "terrific weather," and to preventive measures he has taken in conjunction with the Harvard trainers...