Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should be reminded, before it is too late, that some problems are too complex and ill-defined for the electronic computer. In meteorology, for instance, we do not have sufficiently valid and powerful theoretical concepts to make the use of the computer meaningful, so it helps very little in weather forecasting...
Once she sang Stormy Weather, it never quite sounded right coming from anyone else. But after 28 years of carrying a smoky torch from Harlem to Hollywood, Lena Home, still sultry at 45, finds the flame burning lower. Soon after she finishes her six-week run at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, Lena says she will give up nightclub singing altogether. "It's stifling to keep singing these silly boy-girl songs all your life. All the drama has moved from Broadway to Mississippi. Why be trivial in times like these?" Her idea: "Match bitternesses" with Essayist James Baldwin...
Plainly in trouble, Diefenbaker paid two visits to Canada's Governor-General -and insiders said it was to obtain the formal permission he needed to dissolve Parliament and call new elections. Whether he dissolves Parliament or tries to weather a vote of noconfidence, he will probably have to face new elections soon...
...first five days, the weather held. "We are fine," Siegert scribbled on a piece of paper and lowered it to helpers waiting 600 ft. below. "What's lacking is champagne. We're thirsty." On the sixth day, a howling blizzard raked the north wall. The temperature plunged to 40° below. In the base camp, thermos jugs were hastily filled with hot soup and coffee. The climbers hauled them up, reported that the soup and coffee were "solidly frozen in the thermos" by the time they arrived. The blizzard lasted for 40 hours. When the skies finally cleared...
...make long-distance radio communication possible. Some 25,000 tons of hydrogen, which is soon to be burned in just such vast quantities, could screen off the sun's ultraviolet light, changing the atmosphere's temperature, causing unpredictable and perhaps unpleasant effects on the earth's weather and climate...