Word: rain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds -- but if they are late, they'll hide or trash your mail and no one will be the wiser." That seems to be the new motto for certain employees of the U.S. Postal Service. In a surprise audit disclosed last week, postal inspectors in Washington found that some local managers temporarily stashed unprocessed mail in parked trailers so that the letters and packages wouldn't be immediately noticed as delayed. Millions of pieces of undelivered mail were found, including...
...this movie is already a Hollywood legend. In retrospect, though, Forrest Gump seems a can't-miss proposition. Consider that the only three movies of the past two decades to win both the year's box-office crown and the Oscar for Best Picture -- Rocky, Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man -- were canny, poignant fables of men in domestic crisis. Throw in two other high-grossing Oscar winners, Platoon and Terms of Endearment, and you have the recipe for a "mature," feel-good smash. Let's see: retarded man, family man, Vietnam hero and lots of decent folks on their...
...footprints are still there in the moon dust, as crisp as the day Armstrong and Aldrin clomped across our TV screens, barely eroded by the rain of cosmic rays and the tick-tick-tick of tiny meteorites. The spacecraft debris in Mylar wrapping, the golf balls and that aluminum American flag remain for all the % universe to see. Who would have thought that those modest monuments would go unvisited for decades -- that the age of exploration would come to a halt on that lonely spot...
Meteorologists described the disaster as a freak occurrence caused when tropical storm Alberto traveled up from the Gulf of Mexico and stalled, dumping torrential rains. Roads, bridges and dams swiftly gave way to the swollen waters of the Flint and Ocmulgee rivers, bringing on a wave of tragedies. In the town of Americus, where 21 inches of rain fell within 24 hours, 16 people perished. Georgians will not soon forget the images of a young Americus woman screaming as the waters of Town Creek engulfed her car and swept her and her baby downstream. Or of dozens of coffins from...
...almost everyone else, the only leader that communist North Korea has ever known perished at such a delicate point of diplomacy that even his sternest ill-wishers were praying that it was not true. Late last week, as Radio Pyongyang nearly sobbed the announcement from a capital glum with rain, the news sent shock waves in widening circles from Seoul, Tokyo and Beijing to Washington, Geneva and the Group of Seven summit in Naples. "He was the greatest of the great men," intoned Radio Pyongyang. To the U.S. and others, he was merely a great, if unfortunate, necessity...