Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roads and bridges, airstrips and antiaircraft sites, barracks and supply points. The upper part of the country had enjoyed a respite since Oct. 22, and the North Vietnamese had collected new stocks of ammunition, repaired bridges, railroad tracks and oil pipelines. These were among the priority targets. But the weather was uniformly bad, and the B-52 is better at saturation bombing than pinpoint attack; Hanoi's claim of high civilian casualties was propagandistic but plausible...
...whims of weather have always bedeviled India's food production. This year the drought that appears every five years with devastating regularity has struck again, sweeping across India from the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea and north to the foothills of the Himalayas. Across the vast Deccan Plateau, where 50 million people live, crops are stunted, cattle emaciated, and people weak and exhausted from hunger. Thanks to astute stockpiling by the government-and to the Green Revolution that has helped to double food production in the past decade-India for the first time in centuries has enough...
Americans have been warned since 1970 to expect serious winter fuel shortages, but in the past two years relatively mild weather enabled the nation to stretch its thin energy supplies far enough to cover nearly all heating needs. This year, as many areas shiver into the beginning of what meteorologists forecast will be a long hard winter, the nightmare of cold furnaces is becoming real. Although most homes probably will be well heated, the shortage could disrupt the economy by forcing some factories, stores and offices to close...
...expected head coach Don Gambril shuffled his lineup for the contest putting several swimmers in off events and that number of instances testing those who felt slightly under the weather as a result of the tiring bus trip to West Point Captain Fred Mitchell who last week swim the 100 and 200yd freestyles moved up to the 500 and 1000yd. distances winning both easily...
...architectural projects are there, but also huge replicas of columns and wall details that convey the magnitude and impact of buildings. Regrettably, the effect is to emphasize Breuer's late work. While structurally forthright and beautifully executed-he considers every detail down to how his materials will weather over the years-these immense, sculptural buildings tend to lack the grace, originality and controlled exuberance of his earlier projects...