Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evil Man." Next day Clark had his own sort of inning. About 25 Negroes were kept waiting outside the courthouse in a drenching rain. Clark appeared, read a court order forbidding demonstrations. The Rev. C. T. Vivian, a close King associate, berated Clark! "Maybe you're not as bad as Hitler," he shouted, "but you are an evil man!" Whereupon Clark knocked him, mouth bloodied, to the ground. Said Clark later: "If I hit him, I don't know it. One of the first things I ever learned was not to hit a nigger with your fist because...
...sheriff with the nightstick mentality, the glacial rate of voter registration, the Negroes waiting in the rain-all these symbols of disgrace in Selma, Ala., have been in headlines and news pictures for five weeks. But Selma has its assets too, and one of them is Dr. James H. Owens, a peppery, knowledgeable Negro educator who is struggling valiantly to keep the area's only Negro college alive...
...m.p.h. On the 127th lap, the two cars snarled full bore around the west turn, with Panch "drafting" Lorenzen, tucked into his slipstream only inches behind. "I had just about 6 ft. between me and the wall," Lorenzen said later. "All of a sudden, we ran into hard rain; Panch started around me on the outside, and we really connected. My right front fender smacked the wall. Then my right rear smacked the wall and straightened me out. Good thing too. I was doing about 165 m.p.h...
...other volunteers who had in fact had colds. Sometimes it was a plain saline solution. Not even the doctors knew which it was until after the test. Some subjects agreed to take hot showers, then stand around in a cold corridor without drying themselves. Others went out in the rain, got drenched, and then sat around in a cold room. Volunteers had to use paper tissues instead of handkerchiefs, and keep count of each tissue. Some of Sir Christopher's findings: > Determining whether a person even has a cold is no easy matter. Some people naturally have runnier noses...
...hula on millions of home TV screens. ("Sorry, folks," the announcer apologized. "We just can't hold the cameras steady.") Arnie Palmer winced with pain as a cloud of sand from the bunkers blew into his eyes. Tony Lema huddled against his caddy for protection from the pelting rain, and Amateur Robert Hoag was almost blown over backwards by a gust of wind as he addressed his ball for a drive...