Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...altogether "Splendid Splinter" of the 1940s and '50s, is back in the game as manager of the Washington Senators-and that is just fine with Dolores. "It's about time he learned to get along with people," she said. "He's up and down like the weather...
...guerrillas also stepped up their war, as weather improved. The fedayeen planted a package of explosives outside the British consulate in Jerusalem, presumably in response to reports that Britain intends to sell tanks to Israel, reports that London declines to confirm or deny. Another bomb went off in the marketplace of Lydda, wounding an Arab grocer. In Jordan, fedayeen leaders took to moving from camp to camp, fearing assassination by Israeli infiltrators. King Hussein temporarily closed down Amman airport, and Egypt's Nasser declared a state of emergency...
...always effective; they can stumble as easily as they succeed. Harry Figge's "Automatic" Sprinkler Corp. went into a nosedive last year when strikes and production snags crippled two divisions, while a third ran into cost-control woes. Ogden Corp. suffered after its shipbuilding subsidiary hit rough weather. Tex Thornton's Litton ran into multiple trouble: losses in shipbuilding, engineering snags on a new typewriter, slumping sales of office furniture. Much to the dismay of investors, the company blamed its plight on management deficiencies...
Despite the poor weather conditions, Belmont election officials reported a large voter turnout. Many of the ballot counters, however, were unable to get to work, causing the tabulating delay...
...Beer, professor in Government, and Robert Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson Lecturer in English Literature, are the faculty members under whose signed advice X was approved. All this, of course, is to establish some sort of credibility. You see, X is no one night stand; no, as they say, fair-weather baby; not a flash in the pan, you know; not this one, no fly-by-night...