Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crisis on Safari. And so, each summer, when the cruel sea calms and the weather mellows, the population of Lundy swells from seven to 80 or so. Then the bluebottles flock to the island by the thousands to marvel at the ice-age cabbage that now grows nowhere else, or to catch a glimpse of a puffin, an auk, a rare peregrine falcon, or any other of the 145 kinds of birds found on Lundy. But as much as anything else, the bluebottles seem to come to spend a little time-and a few puffins-in a place with...
...charts behind, had a choice of burning up his excess fuel and returning to Africa or of navigating with his unpaid bills. Little daunted, Conrad headed on westward, a 3,700-mile leg of the flight over a very lonely stretch of water, where there is only fragmentary weather information, no radio-navigation aids. It was a grim, dead-reckoning proposition at best. All he had to go by was his compass and a bare outline map of the world. Said casual Max Conrad last week: "I navigated by guess and by prayer, mostly. I'd take...
...till Poor Richard that Franklin hit his stride as a maker and collector of aphorisms; e.g., "After 3 days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy." "Men and Melons are hard to know," "There is no little enemy." Poor Richard, of course, is also chockablock with moralistic homilies. D. H. Lawrence once carped that Franklin "made himself a list of virtues, which he trotted inside like a gray nag in a paddock." Lawrence was not the first or the last to be infuriated by Franklin's middle-class prudence; yet Franklin's maxims-many...
...every major-college coach in the South, from Alabama's Paul Bryant to Arkansas' Frank Broyles. From Dartmouth came a circumspect and indirect inquiry. Notre Dame forwarded plane tickets to the Southern California game (Perry Lee mailed them right back: "I don't much like cold weather"), and victory-starved Mississippi State sent a plaintive note ("We all hope and pray that you will come with...
...areas in northern New England will have fair weather today, with a few snow flurries. Temperatures will be in the 30's daytimes and at lower levels and below freezing at night...