Word: raine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kansas City was inundated by more than 12 in. of rain in 24 hours. When the storm-actually two downpours interrupted by an afternoon of sunshine -struck early last week, the area's normally placid creeks and drainage ditches were no match for it. A wall of water crashed through the center of town...
Worse because of the embarrassing manner in which defeat was wrought. Sure, the loss of the first-string quarterback, the limited multi flex that had to pass for an offense as a result and what is becoming to feel like the weekly Saturday rain all contributed to the debacle. The turnovers and porous performance of the offensive line didn't exactly help, either...
Columbia, Dartmouth, Yale and Brown emerged as this week's rain-soaked winners, but only the Bruins did it in classic football fashion...
...means more well-paid jobs for the educated elite, and increased foreign exchange with which to import luxury goods. Senegal provided all the initial capital for Bud Antle's operation there, and removed villagers from land the company wanted for its plantations. The Brazilian government is clearing the Amazon rain forest to make way for American-owned companies who hope to grow beef, a luxury among foods, when it could give the land to the Brazilian landless as farms. The Shah of Iran spent millions of dollars on irrigation projects in the late '60s--systems that water the farms...
...role as Danny Thomas' wife in the TV series Make Room for Daddy; of throat cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Hagen started her career in daytime radio serials, then moved on to Broadway (Ghosts, Born Yesterday) and Hollywood (the fading star in Singin' in the Rain...