Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high school history teacher pressed upon them by the exasperated league. His name was George Young, and his philosophy was rooted in the Old Testament. "You need a strong defense and a good running game," he preached, "because in the second half of the season God sends you bad weather." In turn, he hired Coaches Ray Perkins and Bill Parcells; Parcells took...
Hardest hit was the Soviet Union, where a total of 77 people have died in weather-related incidents since early January. Soviet news reports attributed 48 of those casualties to fires, most of them caused by defective heaters. An additional 29 people were crushed under avalanches in the Georgian republic. Temperatures in Leningrad dropped to -31 degrees F, the lowest reading there since meteorological data were first kept in 1743. In Moscow, where the thermometer hit -32 degrees, the city's residents burned twice their normal daily average of gas and fuel oil and overworked heating systems failed in many...
...arctic blast stunned eastern and central Europe. Thirty-one weather- related deaths were reported in Poland, 20 in Hungary and 5 in Austria. Along the snowbound, 170-mile highway linking Budapest with Vienna, more than 130 cars were immobilized for up to 18 hours until Soviet, Hungarian and Austrian tanks dug them out. One of the liberated motorists was Austria's Ambassador to Hungary, Arthur Agstner. Declared the grateful diplomat: "If the Soviet tanks had not arrived in time, several of us could have frozen to death...
...army troops to stricken areas across the country, French Premier Jacques Chirac mobilized some 1,800 soldiers to help remove the snow from Paris streets. The government ordered two Paris Metro stations to stay open all night to help shelter an estimated 15,000 homeless men and women. The weather was even more severe in other regions. The town of Mouthe, in the eastern Jura mountain area, was caught in a record -27 degrees, while the winegrowing Burgundy region in the southwest posted -7 degrees. The Mediterranean port of Marseilles was hit with heavy snow and winds...
Nobody could call the New England summer a lovable thing; the inhabitants of New England have never made friends with it. More than the heat, it is the humidity that makes it scarcely tolerable. The weather clings, like a low fever you cannot shake off. The Indians who first lived here had the sense to take off their buckskins as soon as things hotted up and sit, thereafter, up to their necks in ponds. This behavior is no longer permissible in the "City of Spindles...