Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...start by driving up the shore from Santa Monica to Malibu just because I like the drive. That area, along the shore, is my idea of California. It has the free impermanence of the place. The beach houses stand wall to wall on the sand, weather-beaten dwellings right next to opulent villas. The cliff on the other side is raw, crumbling dirt, and it periodically dumps its houses right down on the road. I get the feeling that the whole state may subside into the ocean some...
...steady rain and the prospect of little change in Boston's dreary political weather reduced voters' turnout yesterday as less than 100,000 citizens overwhelmingly placed Louise Day Hicks and John J. Kerrigan at the top of Boston's city council and school committee races respectively...
...Moving Target Indicator is a radar system that allows a helicopter travelling at 200 m.p.h. to detect a single moving man three miles away. The Helicopter Project would provide all-weather stability for army "gunships." Both projects would be used extensively in Vietnam...
Lugging their suitcases with "Indians" sipped on the slick upholstery, they've come "like the bad weather." one Harvard cop remarked yesterday-unwanted and out of nowhere...
...flying time; the international norm is between 15 and 20 crashes per 100,000 flying hours. One problem was that the Germans turned what had been designed as a fairweather, high-altitude interceptor into a low-altitude, multipurpose fighter-bomber and tried to fly it in the tricky weather of Central Europe. Another difficulty was that the Luftwaffe's pilots and maintenance men lacked the training and experience to handle the complicated, equipment-crammed plane. Before long, the Starfighter came to be known as the "flying coffin...