Word: raine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as Parisians basked in spring's first sunny warmth, Bruce stood by his broad window in the U.S. Embassy Annex overlooking the Place de la Concorde. "The trouble with this weather," he complained lightly, "is that it makes the French too optimistic about their economy. Rain would be better for their crops." Many an EGA man believed that France, with her chronic slipshod finances and Communist sabotage, was ECA's biggest problem. Bruce was sure France could also be ECA's biggest triumph...
...devout citizens hurried uneasily into the great cathedral and prayed. Others just looked up to the sky and grinned. Children pulled off shoes and pattered gaily in tiny puddles along bustling Jiron Union. Newspapers dusted off their big wooden headline type. Rain had come to Lima. It was only .08 inch (in 90 minutes) but it was the first rainfall in Peru's capital in five years, and the heaviest since a .12-inch shower...
...squad met poor weather most of the way and dropped every game by top heavy scores. Always playing in pouring rain or heavy wind, they lost to North Carolina 27 to 0, Virginia Tech 22 1/2 to 4 1/2, Virginia 5 to 2, and Georgetown...
...sculptures. Stone-grey and stone-cold, the rooms coil upon each other in a snakelike labyrinth. In the ceilings are white stone mosaics different from anything Rivera has done before-deceptively simple abstractions that seem to waver, cloudlike, on the edge of recognizability. One of them, representing Tlaloc the rain god, is a face formed of two writhing snakes, set so as to be reflected in a sunken pool. The tower of the god of air is so designed that a chill draft eddies through it on the stillest days...
...Luxury Liner. Not up to the usual . . . but it brought them in out of the freezing rain, so why should I pick...