Word: raine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right about that. One of his funniest photographs is of a soaking wet dog, standing outside an open door of a shop in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The dog yearns to be invited in, a weary traveler seeking shelter from the rain. The way in which Erwitt photographs this dog is both amusing and poignant...
...prodigal son hesitantly calls his father from a phone booth in the rain. He wants to come home. Ecstatic Dad rings up his other son to pass on the good news. But Son No. 2 isn't too happy and calls up Mom to gripe. Mom suggests, "Call him." What's going on? Will the next phone call explain the family feud...
...green here is really, really green. And the girls are dressed in grass skirts, and so too are many of the boys, with sashes of flowers across their oiled chests and woven tree bark around their ankles. The 50-man long boats are racing past mist-wreathed rain-forest mountains, and the muddy park is taken over by cricket. But not the game of white-flannel elegance as it is played at the Marylebone Cricket Club in London. Oh, no! This is tropical, Technicolor kirikiti -- buxom girls in lemon yellow shirts and sky blue skirts thwacking around a homemade rubber...
...increases, people have spilled out of the cities in search of housing. The Giza Plateau, once far from urban sprawl, now lies almost in the shadow of modern apartment buildings. Nearby factories and old vehicles spew forth noxious clouds of particulate-laden exhaust, which becomes corrosive when dissolved by rain. Vibrations from traffic produce cracks in the monuments. More serious still is the damage caused by water. An estimated 80% of Cairo's incoming water supply escapes from leaking pipes into the ground. And the aging sewerage system, built 75 years ago to serve a population of half a million...
Standing in a light rain in the White House driveway, Carter cautioned against the use of U.S. military force and said the United States should not abrogate the Panama Canal treaties, which were negotiated and signed during his administration...