Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union. But Miller also failed his followers when they most needed him. By identifying himself and his regime inextricably with the fate of a less-than-complete contract, by campaigning for its passage through all four days of the balloting--even to the last hour of the weather-delayed plebiscite--Miller shortchanged the miners who voted overwhelmingly...
...gather up an inordinate number of nuts. Geese and other birds are heading south as much as a month earlier than usual. To add to the forbidding configuration, the forward end of the woolly bear caterpillar is ominously darker this season. For legions of hunters, woodsmen and students of weather arcana, the evidence is plain-a harsh winter lies ahead. The omens, they warn, are all but unanimous: animal fur is thicker, the perch are running deeper, and the pine tree is unusually laden with seeds. Linwood Rideout of Bowdoinham, Me., a hunting guide for 40 years, gauges...
...that squirrels are hoarding nuts mostly because nuts are more plentiful. For its forecasts, the NOAA turns to an array of computers, and they indicate-well, guess what? The "chances are 14 to 1 that this winter will be colder than that of 1973." One meteorologist with the National Weather Service, his tongue wrapped warmly in his cheek, was less confident: "I talk to the squirrels in my backyard every morning, and they don't know any more about the weather than...
Following the Eli score, both teams struggled in vain to mount a sustained drive, as the cold weather and muddy field gave the running backs fits...
Troubles did not end with race. As Shaw notes, "All God's dangers ain't a white man." There was also the unyielding soil and unpredictable weather, the boll weevil, illness and wild fluctuations in the all-important price of cotton. "It's a market price," Shaw explains, "and it's set before you ever try to sell your cotton, and it's set probably before you gin your cotton and before you gather it or grow it or even plant your seed." During Shaw's prime farming years (roughly 1906 to 1932), cotton...