Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unless the weather conditions are too unbearable, the brothers will spend their time cross-country skiing and hiking in snowshoes in the eight feet of snow...
...sometimes flies his twin-engine Cessna 310 without a copilot) have caused agents assigned to Carter to consume more antacid than usual. A recent Carter flight from Senator Herman Talmadge's Georgia plantation back to Plains was a case in point. Because Plains was socked in with bad weather, Pilot Peterson originally planned to set down at Albany, Ga., some 45 miles away. The Secret Service therefore dispatched a team of agents and a full motorcade to Albany to meet Carter. But Peterson departed from his flight plan, flew over Plains, sighted what he called a "hole...
Poor Showing. When contests are so tight, of course, any number of factors can be said to have tipped the balance in favor of the winner-the good weather that brought out large numbers of Democrats, the latest discouraging economic indicators, reservations about Vice Presidential Candidate Robert Dole, the allegations raised against Gerald Ford and dismissed late in the campaign. In 23 states, including all the big ten except Florida and Massachusetts, the winner captured 52% of the vote or less. Redistribution of a mere 8,000 votes would have swung the election to Ford; a juggling of some...
Well, the Ivy League football season is finally over, and it's time to look toward the future. Winter. Even though winter will not begin for more than a month there is ice on the ground: a sure sign that we won't be seeing tropical weather until at least February, and maybe later...
...even less promising future is portrayed in harsh, space language. The "Village Market" with its "sun, emaciated donkeys, flies...' is replaced in a "False Step" by the alienation of the city. "Here there is nothing I know/And nothing that knows me," says the recent urban immigrant arriving in weather as bitter as his mood. This theme of inexorable dislocation runs through a number of the poems. In "Flower Seller" Najafi realizes that"...the farthest limit of my voyage I reach after passing beyond all bounds." An artist recognizes a similar dilemma in "The Birth of the Poet:' "I have left...