Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hopperesque sunlight. There is the cooling fog. And the sea breezes skittering up and down the hills. And the abounding good will. If San Francisco insists on delighting in itself, and even showing off - with the All-Star Game this week, the Democrats next and the Super Bowl come winter - 1984 is the year it deserves to be indulged...
...months of the year for most of California, temperatures in San Francisco reach an average high of only 64° and fall to a dank and chilly low of 53°. Mark Twain, who lived in the city in the 1860s, is said to have remarked that "the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." The reason is a stratum of fog that blankets the city for part of nearly every day, dropping temperatures as much as 15°. Many San Franciscans dress in layers of clothing that can be peeled or added...
...main reason for the good news is that cold weather caused higher than normal heating-oil demand during the last half of the winter. That, in turn, resulted in the production of more gasoline; two gallons of gasoline are produced whenever a gallon of heating oil is refined. The excess fuel went into storage tanks and is now helping to depress prices. The U.S. has gasoline stocks amounting to 250 million bbl., fully 13% more than at the same time last summer...
...best time to study the turkey vulture, especially in the tiny hamlet of Hinckley, Ohio, to which, like the swallows that regularly come back to Capistrano, the scavenging birds return every year. February, however, is not the ideal time to look for groundhogs. The woodchuck does awaken from his winter torpor earlier than most other ground animals but rarely as early as Feb. 2-unless roused from its den by meteorologists...
Celebrated Pole Vaulter Billy Olson did not, but he was of good cheer. Mindful that his indoor sessions are better, Olson said, "Maybe in 1988 I should go out for the Winter Games." Former U.C.L.A. Star Mike Tully, 27, performed the tallest vault by any American in history, 19 ft. ¾ in., and the first of his three subsequent attempts at a world-record 19 ft. 3¾ in. looked rattlingly close. Spectators were enjoying the thought of Soviet Record Holder Sergei Bubka opening his U.S.S.R. Today the following morning and receiving the news. But Tully came no closer...