Word: groundedness
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Heavy spring rains affected fruit formation, hailstorms bruised fruit that had formed, and cold weather grounded the bees that must pollinate some fruits. Explains University of California Pomologist James A. Beutel: "Spring temperatures remained below 60°, which is too cold for good cross-pollination. Bees won't fly...
What is to be done, as another man asked in a not too different time at the beginning of this century. The failure of nerve among many elements in American society is already evident enough: a retreat into privatism or worse, a surrender to nihilism, the politics, if you will...
> Airline earnings were up or down depending on whether airlines had been hit by last year's third-quarter machinists' strike. TWA and National, both of which had been grounded by the strike, reported higher revenues this year because quarterly passenger loadings were back to normal. American Airlines...
Suit for Burial. The Falling Stars' safety director grounded Wasik temporarily after Rickie's death. But soon he was jumping again. Last week he boarded the club's Cessna 182, the same plane from which his wife had plummeted. At 3,200 ft., he hesitated, then stepped...
As the 24-year-old right-hander breezed into the seventh inning with a 2-0 lead, he had retired 18 consecutive men. Many fans in Fenway Park recalled Don Larson's perfect game for the Yanks in the '56 series. When the dangerous Lou Brock grounded meekly to second...