Word: raine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Demonstrators begin to trickle in to Santasoucci's farm Friday afternoon, meeting the organizers who surround the camp. Security and support crews arrange for campsites, make dinner, shuttle passengers in and out, and bar the door to undesirables, which in this case means the press. Inside, the rain is a nearer enemy than the power plant--tents and tarps spring up, some Himalya-proof homes, other makeshift shelters, like the "Poncho Villa" erected by four Harvard students...
...with Mace. They kick and they shove and they are strong, and then everybody is retreating and every available water bottle is above somebody's face, and you know there is no way on God's green earth that you'll ever get near the plant. It starts to rain, and the Mace on your hair washes down into your eyes and starts to sting again...
...discussed further until after the agreement was signed; it also depended on congressional approval and on observance of the agreement. Finally, at a quarter to one, we initialed the various texts. After this, Le Duc Tho and I stepped out on the street in a cold misty rain and shook hands for the benefit of photographers...
Hucksters were ready for the crowd, too. Though the rain reduced the expected throngs by about half, peddlers were out in full force, and in violation of a two-day ban on hawking downtown. Selling posters, records, flowers, buttons and even "Pope adds Life" t-shirts, they tried to make a buck off sentimental throngs...
...divine retribution was in the air along with the rain-threatening clouds and on the next play, St. Louis headed a Brynteson airball into the Smith net for a clean score...