Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cause great flare-ups on the sun, which will then be at the peak of its eleven-year sunspot cycle. The solar storms will spew out streams of charged particles more intense than usual, disrupting radio communications on earth, creating exceptionally bright northern (and southern) lights, and affecting global weather patterns. Prevailing west-to-east winds will moderate, decreasing their contribution to the earth's rotation and allowing it to slow ever so slightly. The abrupt slowdown would provide the necessary nudge, as Gribbin and Plagemann put it, to "agitate regions of geological instability into life." Many quakes will...
THIS YEAR'S September was a disappointment to those who have admired previous efforts. The usual components were there--30 days, decent weather--but the month lacked its usual panache...
September 29: Time magazine reports that Nixon offered to relinguish his pardon if it would help Ford weather the storm of public outcry. Thanks anyway, Ford said. It will blow over...
Though the enthusiasts that braved the cold windy weather to watch the game were not rewarded with finesse or a goal-scoring duel, they saw a strong and conditioned Harvard team run all over a weak, often hapless, MIT, giving hints of the jig-saw puzzle that coach George Ford has been quietly piecing together in the last few weeks...
...novelty of watching the graceful boats wore off, the race became rather boring. The voice of Hoyt began to lose some of its enthusiasm. "...And the Southern Cross is putting up the same old white bag..." he reported blandly as the Aussies set their white spinmaker after rounding the weather mark well behind the defender...