Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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State troopers, wearing white and blue slickers, conservation officers in their green raincoats, and city police in yellow slickers lined the streets. Freedom songs, the roar of motorcycle engines, and the crackle of police radios all blended with the sound of the rain. The immense white Capitol Building, lighted by floodlights and glistening in the rain, loomed above the troopers and the pickets...
...parade headed up the hill toward the capitol building, gusts of wind began whipping at the trees and tall weeds. A blast of icy rain swept across the demonstrators. Behind the marchers now, I looked up the line, across the 2000 bobbing heads. At the front were two huge flags, one of the United States and one of the United Nations, flapping in the wind. Higher up and to the right loomed the very white dome, topped by a Confederate flag and the modified Confederate flag that Alabama has chosen...
...blackened and rain began falling straight down, too heavy now to be shifted by the wind. White onlookers retreated from the curbs and onto nearly porches. Most chewed gum, spitting angrily every few minutes. A few tried to laugh, but ridicule didn't work in this weather and most chose silence...
...crowd sang and clapped for four hours, as the wind and rain swirled into a minor tornado. The temperature dropped into the low 40s but they all stayed. An old preacher pulled me under his umbrella. "You gonna freeze, be said. We linked arms and sang to keep warm. Up front a fat Negro boy in blue overalls led the chanting, bellowing and smiling into a huge red megaphone. A small boy near me started shivering. Finally a spasm of exhaustion shook through him and he fell face down in a puddle. His father picked him up and straightened...
...controlled by the weather in their buying habits. Statisticians found that every degree of temperature below normal on any day in spring, and every degree above normal on any day in fall, will cause retail sales to fall off exactly 1%. Furthermore, they reported, every one-tenth inch of rain that falls between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. on any day inevitably depresses sales...