Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already high economic losses (see following story) caused by a winter that could well become the coldest on record in the U.S. The number of states declaring an emergency because of the cold rose to eight* as natural-gas supplies dwindled, electricity consumption remained high and the abnormal weather disrupted crops and commerce...
...work week. Meanwhile. state authorities were moving fast on their own. Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp ordered all of his state's schools closed. The National Guard was called out to help remove snow in Buffalo; even a local course in arctic survival techniques was canceled because of the weather. Maryland ordered a drastic reduction in all business uses of natural gas. Heating costs soared in New England, where poor residents of Providence sought emergency loans from a $400,000 state fund to help pay their fuel bills...
Beset by some of the worst weather in decades, winter racing in New York would be a sickly season indeed were it not for a new twist: the emergence of Steve Cauthen. An apprentice jockey since his 16th birthday last May, Cauthen has won 276 races and more than $1.6 million in purses since riding his first professional mount. That nag, King of Swat, was a 136-to-l long shot, and finished as the odds had him-dead last -but Cauthen has been winning ever since. He stands a good chance this year of building the most successful season...
...million to save the ruin (Greece has already pledged $5 million of the total). To launch the fund-raising drive, UNESCO's director-general, the Senegalese classicist and art historian Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, climbed the Acropolis and issued a warning. "After resisting the onslaughts of weather and human assailants for 2,400 years," he cried, "this magnificent monument, on which Ictinus and Phidias left the imprint of their genius, is threatened with destruction as a result of the damage which industrial civilization has increasingly inflicted...
Cheerful Smile. The teacher stands up to the boss and wins back her man, but not before making moral weather as heavy as a tundra blizzard out of it. "Like a lot of people, I came up here chasing a dream," she says. "Unlike a lot of people, I won't sell my soul...