Word: snowstorms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Gralla and his crew spectacularly beat the odds. The weather was foul for all three shots-in the third, Norton Sound was hidden from her escorts by a snowstorm-but the rocketmanship and the seamanship were superb. Each countdown, with 60 Navy and civilian technicians briskly at work, took six hours. Minutes before firing, rocketmen removed the heated blanket draped around the bird to keep electrical relays from freezing up. Then they took cover, while the firing officer waited until the ship was at the right degree of pitch and roll to enable the rocket...
Just nine days before the beginning of spring, the worst snowstorm of the winter blanketed New England and extended as far as Virginia and the Mid-west. In Cambridge, the storm stopped even the proverbial mailman...
...Sharon Springs, N.Y. Attorney Joseph P. Leary, stalled in a snowstorm 50 miles from court, argued his client's case to the judge by telephone...
...Franklin P. Adams, Alexander Woollcott, Laurence Stallings, Deems Taylor. He directed the investigations of the Ku-Klux Klan and peonage on Southern plantations that won the World Pulitzer Prizes. He took a proprietary interest in the news: "Who's covering my murder trial? Who's covering my snowstorm?" He told reporters: "Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one." He could be coldly disdainful. Sniffed he: "I never fired a man in my life...
Oppenheimer spoke as scheduled, and despite an April snowstorm drew an overflow crowd to Sanders. Threatened student pickets failed to materialize and the series continued without incident and with dwindling attendance, as the theoretical physics of the lectures failed to excite large crowds for all eight lectures. Oppenheimer did, however, live in Adams House and met and talked with many undergraduates during his stay, creating at least as much interest in this way as the Veritas boys had in theirs...