Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think about the possibility of a change in the weather...
Harvard baseball is as unpredictable as--what? Pick your simile. As unpredictable as the spring weather? As a baseball? As a charging rogue elephant? As a charging rogue flea...
Next morning, the weather again helped the enemy. With a mere 200-ft. ceiling, the choppers and planes had to come in right on the Communist guns-and six were shot down. One skidded safely onto the airstrip in a gear-up landing, and its pilot, Major Stafford ("Jump") Myers, 46, jumped out and scrambled into a trench. Minutes later, his fellow pilot, Major Bernard Fisher, had braved the hail of fire to land his Skyraider on the same short strip. "Nobody's ever seen an old man like me run so fast in his life," Jump explained later...
...dress is good for four or five wearings, depending on the clemency of the weather and the intensity of the wearer's frug. Gone are laundry and cleaners' bills; all that's needed is a good eraser. Gone, too, are needle and thread and painstaking alterations. A quick snip of the scissors and the hem is shortened, the neckline lowered, while cut outs sprout all over. As for rips, Scotch Tape is all that's needed for instant repairs...
...shows, begin free trade in a few commodities. Headquarters for the $1 billion Asian Development Bank, aimed at financing such sinews as power, railroads and industry, is rising in Manila; the bank hopes to open by summer. Within two to four years, a 7,000-mi. all-weather Asian highway is expected to link Teheran and Singapore. A road of sorts is 96% completed now, and in the dry season, adventurous motorists can attempt the trip from Iran to Dacca in East Pakistan...