Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HAVE BEEN no sweat off the backs of Harvard students to trudge through the slush-swept streets of Cambridge to their review sections and exams during the worst of the recent spate of bad weather. But the fact that their destinations were being staffed by a near-full complement of Harvard employees was evidence of both the workers' dedication, and some unwise judgments on the part of the University...
...throwing onto unemployment rolls hundreds of thousands of workers, ranging from coal miners in Appalachia to oystermen who cannot chop through the ice in Chesapeake Bay. Soaring prices for fruit and vegetable crops damaged by the freeze are giving a new push to inflation. Worse, even if the weather should warm up suddenly, which hardly seems likely, many economic effects of the Big Freeze will linger on into the spring and beyond...
...team in Washington swung into action early. Said Presidential Energy Coordinator James Schlesinger: "Someone has observed that energy policy has consisted of prayer for milder weather. This year the prayers were unanswered." The Interstate Commerce Commission directed railroads to give priority to oil tank cars and allowed oil trucks licensed to operate in only one state to cross state lines. The Federal Energy Administration ordered some refineries to cut production of jet fuel so that they can make more heating...
Many problems remain. Bad weather over the next few years could wipe out food-production gains. Businessmen generally support Mrs. Gandhi's programs, but complain that investment is restricted by monetary and credit controls imposed to hold down inflation...
Early that morning the 335 starting drivers had pulled on hockey shin guards, corset-like plastic chest protectors, and all the cold-weather gear they could wear and still waddle to the starting line. Temperatures were in the low 20s, balmy by St. Paul standards, but at the 80-m.p.h. speeds the racers would soon be traveling, the wind-chill factor would make it seem like -20°. Some of the drivers fashioned long tape-and-rubber noses to keep the vapor of their breath from fogging their goggles. Others applied wide strips of tape to their faces to ward...