Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rhodesia and cannot quite conceive of him now as ruling the country. An example of this was my sister's bringing an African girl friend from school home for the weekend, to the utter astonishment of my parents.This farm is located in the hilly eastern highlands of Rhodesia. The weather throughout the year is like summer in Maine...
...pulled the plug. It was the peak power period, he explained, and the chilly inhabitants of England and Wales had turned on a lot more electricity (32,000 megawatts) than the state-owned power stations could produce (29,000 megawatts). The foul-up was due "partly to the weather and partly because we are rather behind on an annual overhaul...
...Arab revolutionaries cannot fail to note the current reactionary tide in the Middle East," said the chief party newspaper in Damascus last week. However the hot heads in Syria might feel, the rest of the Middle East was plainly looking forward to the welcome touch of cooler, quieter political weather...
...first pilot to fly a sailplane across Mount Rainier. "I see so many people who are in ruts and aren't having fun," he says. "One of them is my own brother. He's still an airline copilot, and he grinds away in bad weather, smelling smoke from the captain and not complaining, because he doesn't have the rank...
...Seminary 22 years ago on assignment to Alaska, where he is now Episcopal bishop. He lived five years in an Eskimo village, once made a 35-day trek from Point Hope to Point Barrow by dog sled; he flies 50,000 miles a year, much of it in bad weather and to isolated areas. "Most people," he says, "wait on their islands of insecurity for the world to overwhelm them. In most of the U.S., no one has to take risks. Up here, you feel challenged. When I fly in bad weather or when I rough it, I feel that...