Word: raine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sewer pipes, six feet in diameter, will carry the sewage to the chlorination station near the Boston University Bridge for treatment. Catch basins will still dump into the river because it is mainly rain water and would not warrant the expense of treatment, Owen said...
Hundreds of students, many of them soaked from the late-afternoon rain, waited patiently for a chance to surrender earnings, scholarship money, or parental windfalls to the Coop's fully computerized cash registers--and fully frazzled salespeople...
Fortunately, unlike "the magazine that condenses"--as they mock in one song, they couldn't keep their story down to three lines. In 1944 they got their first big chance as lyricists, working with Leonard Bernstein on "On the Town." Since then, their words have spotlighted "Singin' in the Rain." "The Band Wagon," "Bells are Ringing," "Wonderful Town," "Hallelujah Baby," and "Applause...
...employed: a lush, personal, emphatic treasure of coins to be spent slowly and for value. Thus, in Southern idiom, no lady is merely pregnant; she is "in bloom" or "her bees are aswarming." Girls are variously "ugly as homemade soap" or "pretty as a speckled pup." It does not rain in the South; it "comes up a cloud." For young children, the mystery of the belly button is easy to explain: it is "where the Yankee shot you." Acquaintanceship? "We've howdied but we haven't shook." Crowding? "There's not room enough in here to skin...
...second of the three days in Leh was an extraordinary test of devotion. No sooner had the saffron-robed speaker begun preaching from his brocade throne than a freezing downpour began, soaking the congregation of 18,000. Everyone sat silently in the rain for four hours, while the air hung heavy with the smell of incense and wet earth. "What faith they must have!" an Indian army officer marveled. "I couldn't sit there for ten minutes...