Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Space Administration are shooting for the moon, and they tend to shrug off the military aspects of space. In contrast to the moonshooters, the Air Force foresees the need for a manned spacecraft, rugged and simple in design, that will be ready to go any time in any weather, reach orbit, maneuver in space, and return to earth as a matter of combat routine...
...warm months, the Appalachian fruit region is occasionally pelted by hailstones as big as golf balls, which smash and bruise the ripening apples and peaches. In 1957, after a year of especially heavy hail damage, fruitgrowers in the four states got together in an organization called the Blue Ridge Weather Modification Association. They hired a cloud-seeding firm to combat the costly hail...
...collecting signatures on a petition in hopes of getting an anti-seeding bill introduced in the state legislature. Farmers have threatened to shoot at cloud-seeding planes. In Mercersburg, they were blamed for cutting down 138 plum trees belonging to Orchardist Henry Heisey; he decided to withdraw from the Weather Modification Association...
...aboard was Gretel, the Australian challenger, but Sir Frank Packer finally relented. Her Aussie crew told Lamont that he was the first newsman ever allowed to sail on her, and the cruise Lamont took, in pelting rain and a 25-knot wind, had another distinction: it was the roughest weather Gretel had ever sailed in. Lamont had to pay for that passage too: he was ordered to help raise the main by winding in 400 ft. of wire on a portable plywood winch. By week's end, Lamont was happy to be all quiet on the Potomac...
...propeller attached to the plane's tail. Puffin stayed aloft for less than a minute. Not until spring did Wimpenny manage a 993-yd. flight, and even then his aircraft could not make the required figure-eight turns. Said Wimpenny last week as he waited for calm weather so that he could try again: "We can now turn Puffin right 'round...