Word: raine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until after the Rev. Earl Duke had said "I now pronounce you man and wife" and the last strains of organ music had faded, did it start to rain. Everybody ran for cover, the ladies lifting their long dresses to avoid splattering them with red mud. In 30 or 40 minutes the skies began to clear. "It's stopped raining," the President announced. As if on signal, people began to return to poolside...
Umpire Joe Driscoll halted that contest during a steady downpour with the Blue Hens leading in the top of the seventh at 1:30 p.m. Both squads remained in the dugouts until 4:30, then returned with rain still coming down hard at 9 p.m., but officials ruled conditions unplayable and Delaware owned...
...raining just as hard in the second and third innings as it was when they suspended it, knowing full well it was going to rain for two more days," Brown added...
...weatherman had it in for the Crimson--it never got to show its late-inning strength. Umpire Joe Driscoll of Arlington watched the rain fall not-so-gently on the grassy plains of Holyoke High for four innings before suspending the contest at the end of the sixth, prompting coach Loyal Park to moan, "What happened out there was inexcusable. And a local guy did it to us." And he had a point--the wet stuff was falling no harder in the sixth than it had been in the eventually-fatal third when the Blue Hens scored their...
Philadelphia at Chicago, ppd, rain...