Word: raine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enough, but Harvard got by, dispatching Penn, 7-6, in the rain...
...lights lost by a scant tenth-of-a-second to the University of Pennsylvania on the rain-swollen Schuylkill River. Cornell finished third...
...really happy with how they rowed [the varsity heavies]," first-year Radcliffe Coach Liz O'Leary said. "Whenever you have conditions like that [strong wind and rain] you never really know what's going to happen...
Atlas-Centaur rockets have been launching U.S. satellites into orbit for the past 25 years, but last week the sturdy workhorse suffered a rare failure. Less than a minute after lift-off from Pad 36B at Cape Canaveral in threatening weather, a $78 million, 137-ft. rocket disappeared into rain- swollen thunderheads and went out of control. A range safety officer hit the destruct button, and the rocket exploded along with its payload, an $83 million communications satellite. For NASA, struggling to recover from the loss of the Challenger shuttle 14 months ago, the aborted flight broke a string...
...will be outraged by it. His book is most compelling when he leaves politics behind to examine the Caribbean-flavored Atlantic coast. There, old black women shake their hips to reggae rhythms, and a dreadlocked poet reflects, during an incessant downpour, "In the old days, if Somoza told the rain to stop, it stopped. I don't know what's wrong with these Sandinistas." At such moments, The Jaguar Smile enjoys some of the charm of a tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- or for that matter, Salman Rushdie...