Word: rain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attended a rally in Birch Run, Michigan, for the presidential campaign of America First Populist Party candidate and right-wing avatar James ("Bo") Gritz. The featured speaker was to be Gritz's vice-presidential running mate, Cyril Minett, but he failed to show. Participants, taking shelter from a pouring rain, began talking politics. Koernke started running through his theories and soon, says Nancy, "he was asked, you know, 'Get up there and talk.' So they pretty much pushed him up there, and he just kind of fell into it and started talking...
...prayed to God and asked him for a lot of things, and he delivered throughout the entire time," O'Grady told TIME in an interview after he had returned to the Aviano Air Base in Italy. "When I prayed for rain, he gave me rain. One time I prayed, Lord, let me at least have someone know I'm alive and maybe come rescue me. And guess what? That night T.O. [fellow F-16 pilot Thomas O. Hanford] came up on the radio." At that moment, O'Grady knew his ordeal was coming...
Spring has come to Bosnia, and irises, primrose and lilacs pattern the mountainsides, but the temperature still dips below freezing at night, and heavy rains are frequent. The terrain is excellent for hiding, however. O'Grady had crashed in a cave-pocked, densely forested region used during World War II for that purpose by partisans evading the Nazis. The downed flyer had soon consumed the eight 4-oz. packs of water in his emergency kit. But he was able to catch rain in Ziploc plastic bags and at one point tried to squeeze water out of his wet woolen socks...
...results were as impressive as they were diverse. One student group used the Internet to track acid rain on the polar ice cap. Another communicated with researchers kayaking through South America. A class from Tucson, Arizona, invented a modern version of hide-and-seek called Where Are We? in which players zero in on one another's location by exchanging hints through E-mail...
...taking his depressed and institutionalized sister for an outing. They kid around about death and heaven, then veer into cheerfulness: "I'm thinking that I'm gonna be all right, and in the meantime what can be better than a cool, breezy, fragrant day, rain-splatter diamonds on the wraparound windshield of a Ninety-eight Olds with a view of cherry trees blooming in the light spring rain?" For a few minutes, they both believe...