Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told, Red casualties have been 21,500 dead, 3,200 captured, 40,000 wounded and 5,500 defected in South Viet Nam since the allies took the initiative away from the Communists in October. And over the North, whenever the weather clears sufficiently for strikes, the enemy is being hit harder and harder, from the Red River railway to China to supply depots hard by Haiphong-by as many as 300 planes...
...weather vanes shifted largely as a result of Viet Nam. The war is already uppermost in the minds of an impressive number of voters. A poll conducted for the Republican National Committee by New Jersey's Opinion Research Corp. indicates that fully 33% of U.S. voters consider it the nation's No. 1 problem, while an additional 20% regard such closely related issues as the threat of world war or the menace of Communism as dominant. By comparison, only 19% of the voters consider the most important domestic issue, civil rights, to be the nation's chief...
BOAC's flight 911 had taken off in perfect weather twelve minutes before the disaster from Tokyo International and had climbed to 6,000 feet. The passengers were probably peering out the starboard windows for a glimpse of the mountain. Among them were 75 dealers and executives with their wives from Minneapolis' Thermo King Corp., on a 14-day company-paid tour of the Far East, a reward for outstanding sales. Suddenly witnesses on the ground saw the plane belch white, then black, smoke. To some it seemed to come apart in midair, pieces of wing and tail...
...flight plan called for a suborbital 5,500-mile flight downrange to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic. As it turned out, practically all the bugs were on the ground. The shot was delayed for 75 hours, while the kind of weather that Florida does not advertise locked the cape in clouds and rain. When the skies finally cleared, low pressure readings from a small nitrogen sphere that operates fuel valves delayed the lift-off for 31 hours; at one point, NASA control in Houston decided to scrub the mission, but technicians on the pad convinced Launch Director Kurt Debus...
...Michael Benfield, one of the leaders, blamed apathy and the poor weather for the light turnout. "I'll be a lot of people said to themselves. "They're not going to march today,'" Mrs. Benfield said...