Word: rained
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...more than 5,000 ships accompanied by an additional 4,000 small craft of the invasion armada had already put to sea. On that June morning in 1944, screaming winds rattled the windows of the British naval headquarters near Portsmouth, where the D-day commanders were meeting. The rain, as General Dwight D. Eisenhower later recalled, lashed down in "horizontal streaks." A Royal Air Force meteorologist, however, cautiously predicted clearing skies for the next day, June 6. Eisenhower conferred with the generals and admirals gathered around him. He thought for less than a minute, then stood up. "O.K.," he said...
...perhaps the 30th time in two years, Thron broke the law by ignoring a no-trespassing sign in the tiny town of Fortuna and hiking up one of Pacific Lumber's logging roads. It was 10 p.m. and misting when he started, and 3 a.m., with a light rain falling, when he set up his tent. Two hours later, before first light, Thron was standing outside the tent, rain running down the back of his neck. After perhaps five minutes, he heard a short, musical, descending call -- the "keer" of a marbled murrelet. Huge, dark shapes began to coalesce...
...Ugandan shore. Others float in the breaking waves or bob against tangled beds of water hyacinth. Most are mutilated: limbs slashed, heads missing, a scattering of pale forms indistinguishable from one another except the ways in which they died. The corpses, swept as many as 60 miles by the rain-swollen Kagera River in Rwanda to the edges of Lake Victoria, are the latest evidence of a savage...
...House. The trip was to a summit in Vienna. On a stopover in France, the press landed before the President so they could see the First Couple greeted by President Charles de Gaulle. The scene had all the pomp and glamour the media had been anticipating. There had been rain earlier, and the tarmac was glistening; sunlight was starting to cut through the clouds. As Air Force One touched down, the first thing Sidey noticed was that it had a new paint job -- Jackie's work. She had gone to designer Raymond Loewy to give the jet a new look...
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 12 Milwaukee 1 Baltimore 2 Minnesota 5 Oakland 2 Kansas City 2 Chicago 9 Texas 6 California 5 Seattle 9 Toronto..(ppd., rain) Boston at NATIONAL LEAGUE Atlanta 6 New York 1 St. Louis 8 Montreal 9 Pittsburgh 0 Philadelphia 1 Florida 3 Chicago 0 Colorado 4 Houston 0 Cincinnati (10)9 SF 6 San Diego 1 Los Angeles...