Word: rain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After holding a mass for more than 80,000 people huddled in a driving rain last night in New Jersey's Giants Stadium, the Pontiff was up early this morning to travel to Queens. In the whipping wind and bright sunshine, the Pope greeted thousands for morning services at the famed Aqueduct racetrack: "Good morning. Yesterday evening, very strong rain. Today, very strong wind...
...roof of the Sukkah, called the "skhak," emphasizes the impermanent nature of the shelter--it consists solely of straw mats, which let in rain and starlight at night...
...program over before the American public has any chance to understand [it]." After storming out of a meeting with Republicans, Gibbons got into a scuffle with Republican Bill Thomas of California. On Friday, as the Ways and Means Committee met indoors, Democrats staged their own forlorn hearings in the rain outside the Capitol...
Randy Newman, 51, has long since trumped Goethe by writing and performing some of the best songs in contemporary American pop: Sail Away, Take Me Back, Dixie Flyer, Rednecks, Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man), Rollin', I Think It's Going to Rain Today. Now he's trying to beat one of the world's best poets at his own game by writing a contemporary Faust as a ferocious musical Valentine to temptation, damnation, redemption and the beguiling persistence of evil. It is classic pop and prime Newman. The tunes are jaundiced, lyrical and funny; the libretto...
...heard her shouting, "Ian! Ian!" and then the trailer crashed over onto its side. Malcolm turned away: glassware and lab equipment smashed all around him. When he looked up, everything was cockeyed. Directly above him was the broken window the tyrannosaur had smashed. Rain dripped through onto Malcolm's face. Lightning flashed, and then he saw a big head peering down at him and snarling. He heard the harsh scratching of the tyrannosaurs' claws on the metal side of the trailer, then the face disappeared. A moment later, he heard them bellowing as they pushed the trailer through the dirt...