Word: downpour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Khrushchev & Co. landed at a dilapidated East River pier in a soaking downpour at a reception that was equally cheerless.* Apart from a few score welcoming members of Communist legations (who make a claque for the newsreels back home), he found himself surrounded by cordons of city police and special security details, the advance guard of an army of 8,000 men who were deployed through Manhattan on the most elaborate job of protection the U.S. has ever seen...
...sudden downpour washed out the ceremony that was to take place on the lawn of the President's quarters at Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station on Oahu. The presidential party ran for cover to the officers' club, and there in a 2½-minute ceremony, Dwight D. Eisenhower received his 46th* and quickest honorary degree, an LL.D. from President Laurence H. Snyder of the University of Hawaii. Read the citation: "His travels to the far corners of the earth as an emissary of peace have endeared the hearts, won the minds and rallied the loyalties of freedom-loving...
...force of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was 8.3, and that of the worst quake on record, the one in Assam, India, in 1950, was 8.7. -In the wake of the seismic wave, the Philippines' main island of Luzon was swamped by an 18-hour downpour caused by Tropical Storm Lucille. In the floods that followed, 108 were drowned and 150 were missing...
...same subject at different times of day and with different effects. He took them up and put them aside in turn, following the changes in the sky ... I have seen him thus seize a glittering shower of light on the white cliff . On another occasion he took a downpour beating on the sea in his hands and dashed it on the canvas." Seen grouped as he painted them and as he wanted them to be seen, Monet's canvases revealed that his vision of reality was not single, but manifold. Nine paintings of haystacks derived strength in combination both...