Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unloaded about 700,000 gal. of phosphate flame retardant on the fire, at a cost of nearly $4 million. To plot where and when the flames will strike next, experts use airborne sensors that detect where the fire is burning fastest and computers that analyze information about terrain and weather forecasts. With no rain in sight, the battle is expected to continue for many more days...
With so many genes busily at work, all would seem to be well with the author's warm-weather fiction. But Novelist Weldon is much too fond of the kind of ornateness that clutters Iris Murdoch's lesser novels-in this case, the ponderous idea that Hamish is Rumpelstiltskin and Elsa is the poor girl for whom he spins straw into gold. Gemma insists that Elsa do huge batches of typing each night. Elsa can't manage it, but Hamish...
After the Congress Party's electoral debacle last March, Mrs. Gandhi had discreetly retreated into seclusion. Though she remained active in party councils, she had hoped to weather in silence the continuing condemnation of her 19-month emergency rule. But increasing isolation within the Congress Party, and the legal entanglements of her son Sanjay, 31, made that course too risky. Her foray into meditation, in fact, aimed to demonstrate her continuing appeal to India's masses. On that score, it was a striking success...
...canceled the event the night before, prompting them to cancel the reinforcement call. Some blacks attempted to march anyway, but two leaders were quickly arrested and the march halted. Even so, angry white mobs went on a rampage. Perhaps hoping that tempers might cool with a change in the weather, the city then stated that "absolutely no more permits" would be issued for weekend demonstrations until September...
...oldest daughter, Marian. Like Sulzberger, Dryfoos carried on the Ochs legacy, but he faced new challenges. In 1962 he launched a separate West Coast edition, basically a condensation of the East Coast Times, but the venture got off to a bad start. The next year Dryfoos had to weather a 114-day strike of printing unions that left him and the entire staff seriously demoralized...