Word: weatherman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gathering opened, NOW President Judy Goldsmith warned that failure to pick a woman would make a convention floor fight "a very strong possibility." Said Goldsmith: "This is not in the nature of a threat. This is in the nature of a prediction. The weatherman cannot stop the thunderstorm." At a Mondale fund-raising coffee on Saturday, several delegates looked him in the eye while shaking hands and got off a prearranged line...
...implication was clear: WLS-TV was looking for a new influx of light, superficial stories to bolster its sagging ratings. Several years ago, the station had pioneered the so-called "happy talk" style of local news featuring the likes of the ever-smiling and recently fired Good Morning, America weatherman John Coleman. But the item so angered the news director that the column subsequently reported that he had told his staff only to read all newspapers, including USA Today, which had recently appeared in Chicago. Apparently, some associations are too unflattering for even the happiest of news directors...
Khonkar, 41, a former government weatherman, imported 50 London cabs at about $14,000 apiece and set them loose on the route between Jidda and the airport. With a few modifications, Khon-kar's cars carry their passengers in as stately a manner in the desert as they did in the fog. To fend off the heat, their black bodies have been painted white, and air conditioners have been installed. The steering column has been shifted from right to left, and the chuggy diesel motors used in London have been replaced with smoother-running gasoline engines. Although the London...
While at Harvard, Short was most deeply involved in writing and photography at The Crimson. He served as photo chairman and supplement editor, and in 1970, he received the Dana Reed Prize for best undergraduate writing for a gripping personal account of the 1969 Weatherman riots in Chicago. [Excepts of the prize-winning article are printed below...
Maybe to be a Weatherman you have to feel like nothing, to feel so crushed and fitted into the system that the only thing you want to do is break off and go smashing through the machinery with the hope that the other gears will come smashing with you. We are all guilty of racism and genocide. Just by living in the U. S. we are helping to maintain the status one that thirty the addresses in Vicmain. All my happinesses are probably at the depense of other's sufferings. The work is like that was it doesn't have...