Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offbeat side trips, such as visits to Western cattle ranches, Eastern college campuses and model cities like Reston, Va., or Columbia, Md. Also, as visitors return for second and third trips, they naturally want to see new places. "Florida will be the next new one because of the weather and the beaches," predicts H. David Seegul, president of Manhattan's Travellers International, a leading travel agent for overseas groups. "Then perhaps New Orleans or Colorado...
Like so many Russian artists, Akhmatova learned to discern fate in the changing cold war weather. The Khrushchev thaw brought renewed official acceptance. Much of her work was republished in Russia. At 75, she traveled to Oxford for an honorary degree, to Italy for a prize and to Paris. where 53 years before Modigliani had sketched her portrait. But fame, as Akhmatova once wrote, "is a trap wherein there is neither happiness nor light." Two years later, when she was buried with full Orthodox rites, her graveside was crowded with the Soviet literary establishment...
Telephone users have long been accustomed to getting time signals, weather reports, political spiels and horoscopes just by dialing a certain number...
Freakishly foul weather has struck so many parts of the world in the past year that some meteorologists discern a complex, long-term change in climates. Others discount the theory. On one point, however, all agree: the impact has been devastating to tourism, to industry, and most especially to the world's already hard-pressed food supplies...
...weather caught the U.S. squarely in the middle. By May, 12.6 million acres in seven Midwestern and Southern states were inundated; 4,000,000 acres are still flooded. Some planned cotton crops were never planted. Anticipated corn yields in Illinois are down 10% from last year, and winter-wheat losses are high. Total flood damage is estimated at $409 million...