Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Weather has to be the most underestimated topic of conversation. While it is always acceptable, and often even encouraged, to have scatological, revealingly personal or sexually graphic conversations with perfect strangers in dining halls, you are likely to be confronted with smirks and scornful looks if you start talking about the weather. The weather is boring, people will whine. It's small talk. It means you don't have anything interesting...
Well, we strongly disagree. The weather influences our spirits, marks our academic performance and determines the fate of our relationships--only the truly committed and hyperthermic manage to keep River-Quad relationships alive during the winter. The weather provides an endless topic of conversation; it gives you something to talk about if you do not care to learn about somebody's sperm count or antidepressant abuse over lunch. Besides, the speaker, not the topic, determines whether a conversation is interesting or not. It's simply a question of finding an exciting approach; the subject matter is secondary. To prove that...
Between the wind and the rain, the Florida weather became a third opponent...
Although Harvard's sojourn to the Sunshine State was more stormy than it had expected, the Crimson hope the bad bounces and bad weather will prepare them for the competition it will face out west...
...Sunny weather did little to assuage fears of further flooding today in waterlogged California. Following a week of killer rainstorms, clear skies brought the threat of fresh flooding as mountain snow started to melt into overflowing reservoirs, lakes and streams. Some 100 miles north of San Francisco, hundreds of people fled their homes as the 30-mile-long Clearlake overflowed. During the past two weeks, flooding throughout the state has forced 7,000 Californians to evacuate their homes and has left at least 14 dead. Gov. Pete Wilson expanded his request for federal disaster funding today, seeking to make...