Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign was the war's most grueling, taking 20 long months and some 300,000 Allied casualties. The forces under Clark faced a German army that for most of the bitter struggle was greatly superior in manpower, ammunition and equipment. The Allies were pitted as well against cruel weather and the narrow, mountainous Italian peninsula, whose terrain precluded sweeping armored advances. Clark had to fight equally frustrating vagaries of politics and strategy. Despite his bitter protest, many of his battle-seasoned troops were diverted after D-day to the invasion of Southern France, virtually halting Clark's advance...
While the change of plans for that day's outing was unusual, the scene outside the teen center Saturday morning is typical. Weather permitting, it begins every Saturday morning during the academic year in some part of Cambridge, when Harvard students pick up small groups of Cambridge youths for outdoor trips under the guise of the Harvard Outdoor Program...
...added that the tracksters were helped out by the weather. she explained that continually having to practice in "cold, windy, rainy" weather had led to "team unity...
Miserable weather couldn't stop the Harvard women's track team from trouncing Brown and Dartmouth at Hanover Saturday, but injuries prevented a similar finish by the men in their tri-meet against the same opponents...
Game manufacturers have probably been hardest hit by piracy. Says Michael Katz, president of Epyx, a California company: "It's like the weather. We accept it as something we cannot control but wish we could. Any smart kid can figure out how to break into a game." Some companies plot profits around the safeguards built into the software; once the pirates have cracked the codes, sales quickly fall off. No one in the industry can accurately estimate the extent of the copyright theft involving games...