Word: rained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desolate Christmas Mountains of West Texas. The cabin he has used for part of each year stands 20 miles from the nearest paved road. Before it was finished, he hunkered down for a while in just a hole dug in the ground. To keep out what little rain fell, he pulled a tarpaulin across the opening...
Jessica Dubroff's wings may have been frosted with ice, and she had no joy of flight on her last ride. She took off in a cold rain and died when her single-engine Cessna 177B nose-dived onto the black tar of a suburban roadway. But her senseless death last week could also be attributed to a modern kind of hubris. For Jessica was urged on by overzealous parents, by a media drawn to a natural human-interest story and by a willfully blind Federal Aviation Administration, which permitted a 4-ft. 2-in., 55-lb. seven-year...
...whether to go," says airport manager Jerry Olson. The weather conditions were VFR--visual-flight rules--meaning instruments were not required, although another plane warned the control tower of wind shear. Jessica spoke to her mother on a cellphone as the plane was taxiing. "Mom, do you hear the rain...
...father is dead and cannot defend himself. Jessica's mother, a New Age spiritual healer, gave television interviews after the crash. She said of her last conversation with Jessica just before the girl throttled back into the storm: "She just was so present with the beauty of the rain...
Yesterday's rain forced the postponement of the softball team's doubleheader against Boston College and the baseball team's opening Beanpot game against UMass at Fenway Park...