Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...geology book for junior high school students, Golden is currently writing one on astronomy for the same audience. He and his two sons, aged eleven and 13, have risen before dawn twice so far to spot Kohoutek's flight path through their 4¼-in. telescope; bad weather and pollution have foiled their efforts to date...
Neither bad air nor bad weather got in the way of the Pioneer Project at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif, where Correspondent John Wilhelm reported on the progress of the first missile ever scheduled to leave the solar system. "During high school years," Wilhelm says, "T used to haul an antique, three-inch brass reflector telescope through the attic to the roof of our St. Petersburg, Fla., home to look at Jupiter and its satellites, rings of Saturn and other celestialities." Although he was turned down for summer employment at Princeton's observatory after being asked...
...Ulster was the first trial by fire for the Tory government of Prime Minister Edward Heath, Britain 's economic crisis has now clearly become the second. A perennial cold-weather cycle of labor un rest, coupled with a diminished flow of oil from the Middle East, threatens Brit ons with their most difficult winter in years. It also threatens to destroy Heath 's anti-inflationary plans for ushering Brit ain into a new era of smooth expansion...
...sailing that is also a model of brevity, clarity and simplicity. Starting with the Bernoulli effect (which explains how sailboats move to windward), the book ends with anchoring, having passed through everything from knots to points of sail, from rigging to docking, from man-overboard drills to the rough-weather practice of heaving to. On small craftsmanship and sheer draftsmanship Adkins is hard to beat...
Steiner said the University has made schedule changes and plans for meeting monthly fuel cutbacks on the basis of yearly temperature averages. Planning is difficult, however, because the weather can't be predicted, he said...