Word: raine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jockey's run was aided greatly by poor track conditions resulting from heavy rain, which are a much greater detriment to horses than to human runners. With the possible advent of synthetic racing turf, this one vestige of hope for the jockey will also be lost...
...Peripherique has an amazingly overdeveloped set of vocal chords: his mere coo, echoing across the valley like the roar of a hungry lion, has startled many an unwary tourist. Rather more astonishing is the fact that he roams the Dordogne at all. Peripherique's proper habitat is the rain forests of the Amazon River valley half a world away. Yet he and 36 other delicate South American primates flourish in the Dordogne under the permissive care of Scott and Alika Lindbergh...
...began her fight for meaty roles that would lift her out of the overcrowded pretty-face category. She nabbed a few - notably in Rain and Grand Hotel - but those parts at MGM, which held her contract, usually went to the likes of Norma Shearer. After 17 years, Crawford moved on to Warner Bros., where she held out for two pictureless years until she got Mildred Pierce, which won her an Oscar in 1945. That film launched her on her middle passage, during which she played women who suffered much for love or ambition...
...Force One landed at London's Heathrow Airport, hundreds of journalists from all over the world waited in the rain to record the event. The British, who are not uncomfortable with imperial trappings-as their guest professes to be-rolled out a rich red carpet for him. The President stepped from his plane, carrying an efficient little briefcase instead of his usual suit bag. He stood in the nighttime chill, without an overcoat, and listened as British Prime Minister James Callaghan remarked that the task before the summit meeting was "nothing less than to overcome poverty, to get people...
...Doubleheader vs. Yale, ppd. rain...