Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next day, Saturday, November 23, President Johnson proclaimed a national day of mourning. A fire in an Ohio rest home killed 63 elderly patients. A man watching television stabbed his father-in-law to death when the father-in-law disparaged Kennedy. In Washington, it poured rain, for the first time in weeks...
Sunday, Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald point blank, the Boston strangler struck again in Lawrence. In Washington, the rain continued. The Sunday New York Times carried the following filler: "Because of poverty and food shortage in many countries, the World Food Congress estimates that 10,000 persons are dying daily from malnutrition or starvation...
MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). Singing in the Rain, one of the best musicals Hollywood ever produced, starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds. Color...
Even acts of foresight have backfired. When inflation sent rice costs soaring, Macapagal dispatched trucks into the barrios to sell rice at a subsidized price half that of the retail trade. The long queues, called pilas, exposed customers to broiling sun and drenching rain, and rage instead of gratitude. In a Manila cinema a newsreel of Macapagal brought boos and shouts of "Pila! Pila!" A month before the elections, the government abandoned the "rolling stores" and switched to neighborhood rationing, with the subsidized rice handled in local shops...
...memorize. They also tried to get the campers to understand nature as a rational process instead of a magical one. This second aim was set back somewhat, though, when one superstition appeared to work. The campers told the Harvard students that turning a frog on its back brings rain; and it did rain for three days after frogs had been placed on their backs for dissection...