Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Granddaddy. The Pentagon had long wanted approval to bomb Thai Nguyen. But not until the failure of peace probes during the Tet holiday truce did Lyndon Johnson give the scramble signal to the Air Force. Reconnaissance of the target and bad weather, which has limited strikes over North Viet Nam since January, held up the attack until last week. Then, as the monsoon clouds began to break up, U.S. Navy A-4 Skyhawks from the carriers Kitty Hawk and Ticonderoga began hitting the usual railyards and petroleum dumps while U.S. Air Force fighter-bombers based in Thailand got ready...
...weather was overcast most of the time we were there," he said, "and the gray weather sort of symbolized the whole country. The people don't seem aware that there are better things...
...decisions by himself. Revered by his people as a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, he keeps up his peasant support by weekly visits to the whitewashed villages that dot Morocco's mountains, desert and coast. "Everything in Morocco depends on the King," says a Cabinet Minister, "except the weather...
...without burning hydrocarbons may be one answer to the smog problem that is increasing all over the world. Some scientists are already speculating about giant orbiting mirrors to light up a battlefield in Viet Nam or melt icebergs, free ice-locked harbors and shift storms from their natural courses. Weather control, to hear them tell it, is almost at hand...
Complaints about overcrowding were first voiced in November but the Radcliffe Government Association requested then that several months be allowed to pass before action was taken. It was hoped that inclement weather would relieve the over-crowding...