Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jefferson County, employs 1,200, and boasts a $5 million plant-including a heated clubhouse and a three-quarter-mile track that is specially designed to provide good footing, even when it is covered with snow. But Charles Town's persistent problem is still the freakish winter weather. In 1954, a bolt of lightning struck the starting gate, knocked out Starter Harold Holland and the two Percherons that were tugging the gate into position. In 1956, riders abruptly quit for the day after a 60-m.p.h. gust of wind blew Jockey George Stidham out of his saddle...
When they arrived they were greeted by the King's press secretary, who announced: "the King reads books at a prodigious rate and therefore has a lightning grasp of the weather conditions in his kingdom and of all the statistical, economic, political, social, and philosophical factors of the situation. Since this is a constitutional monarchy, however, he has graciously consented to address his subjects...
...sacrifice. My loyal subjects, I give you these words of advice: Ask not what the sky can do to you, ask rather what you can do against the sky. And as for shelter, do not fear to build but do not build from fear. And remember throughout that the weather is not negotiable...
Nasty Recruiters. On TV, Ulbricht tried to explain that East Germany's food problem was the result of "a smaller harvest than in 1960 due to particularly unfavorable weather conditions." But this excuse hardly convinced many East Germans who knew that neighboring Poland, with similar weather, produced record crops in 1961. The real difference: Poland had soft-pedaled collectivization, permitted the farmers to till their own land; Ulbricht's regime, on the other hand, was still trying to force an unwilling peasantry to work in a harsh collective farm system...
...weather was balmier, and in Russia no one would be wearing U.S. Army-style combat fatigues. But otherwise, Cuba's third anniversary celebration of Fidel Castro's rise to power might have taken place in Moscow's Red Square. Mounting his own version of Lenin's tomb-the José Marti monument in Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion-Castro and his Cuban commissars proudly reviewed the crack units of a Communist-trained, Communist-supplied military machine that is bigger than that of any Western Hemisphere country except...