Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COUNTRIES. In The Netherlands, the weather hurt the corn crop and stunted Dutch bulbs, draining them of their brilliant hues. In Belgium, the flax crop is bad, and the wheat harvest in some places is one-fourth its normal size. But of greater concern to the Belgians than the meager harvest or the tempestuous weather was a new law that goes into effect this week, creating a formal language barrier across the land. Dutch will be the official tongue in the Flemish north, French in the Walloon-dominated south, with pockets of both peoples stranded on the wrong side. Months...
...fired more than 1,000 rockets deep into the atmosphere above White Sands. Probing high above the maximum altitude of sounding balloons, his investigative missiles dropped metalized parachutes carrying temperature-measuring devices and providing tracking radars with easily detectable targets. By charting their drift, Diamond hoped to map the weather through which the U.S. must fire its growing family of space vehicles...
Finally he got the weather he was waiting for. The still, windless desert air was shattered by the roar...
Waiting for Beulah. Encouraged by the results, the Weather Bureau last year joined forces with the Navy in Project Stormfury, an experiment to determine if large-scale, continuous seeding could kill a hurricane early in its career. But for all its grand plans, Stormfury's experimental attack is highly restricted by the fear that something may go wrong. In 1947 the Navy seeded a hurricane far out in the Atlantic, then watched in embarrassed amazement as the storm turned abruptly and careened in a devastating swath through Savannah, Ga. Though no one could prove that seeding caused the course...
...affection of falling plaster, the colors of linoleum, the awful caprice of electrical fixtures, and the ebb and flow of cruel plumbing. He sniffs the eternal odors of poverty, sin and despair on stairway, landing and daybed. The flaking walls about his creatures are a barometer of the damp weather in the soul. His theme is the pursuit of grace among the abounding roaches...