Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this case, both of the jumbo jets were flying toward the U.S. from London at 31,000 ft. and were reporting to the Canadian air-traffic center at Gander, Newfoundland. Their close call came in clear weather at about the halfway point in their crossing. The Delta airliner drifted south of its course and passed just under the Continental plane, which was on its proper track. According to the NTSB, which is cooperating in the investigation with the Canadian Aviation Safety Board, the Delta crew had not been supplied with oceanic charts to display the coordinates of their assigned flight...
...away from the war zone. Since 1984 the teams have relocated nearly 240 animals to safer game reserves and fenced-in ranches. On one recent morning, Warden Clem Coetsee, head of the capture unit, set out with his men to bag their 75th rhino of the three-month dry-weather capturing season. Armed with a heavy darting rifle loaded with nerve-blocking tranquilizer, he spotted a rhino cow, moved into range and took careful aim. The dart hit the beast's shoulder with a thwack. She snorted in alarm, thundered off and collapsed twelve minutes later...
...worries range from natural calamities to man-made disasters. Fretting over the possibility of bad weather in Miami, organizers scheduled the Pope's outdoor Mass there during the morning, when showers are least likely. City officials in Los Angeles, contemplating the nightmarish prospect of the Holy Father's being trapped in his Popemobile in the city's snail-like traffic, ordered up a helicopter. "Even God can't negotiate the freeways," acknowledged Robert Spann, coordinator of the papal visit for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. In San Antonio, heat is a big concern; after planners of the outdoor Mass...
...private baths with Jacuzzis. Instead of a grungy galley, the superyacht has a gleaming kitchen replete with microwaves, commercial-size freezers and stoves, and trash compactors. The bionic boats pack every aquatic toy: water skis, snorkling gear, diving equipment, Jet Skis and sailboards. To help while away foul weather, a free-flowing bar is at the ready, and libraries are stocked with videotapes as well as books, chess and backgammon games. Many decks have saunas, and in one vessel there is a piano with built-in heating elements to guard against warp...
...that corner was a weather-beaten house with hollyhocks out back, like so many other tiny homes in a vast land that time seemed to have punished. Nobody in the dawn patrol paid much attention as they trimmed their machines for the final approach to landing and learning...