Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buddhist monks and nuns in Hong Kong last week chanted prayers to the pulsating tick-tock of sticks beating on fish-shaped wooden blocks. Throngs of Chinese paraded through downtown streets carrying huge paper dragons representing the rain god, and the blare of drums, gongs and cymbals exhorted the heavens to send rain. When a brief shower dampened Hong Kong one afternoon, marking the first rainfall in six months, men and women clapped their hands and shouted...
...small soggy band of loyal lacrosse fans stood in the rain and watched underdog Harvard pound Yale for three periods Saturday. But lacrosse games are four quarter affairs and the Bulldogs really made the most of those final 15 minutes...
...packing cops, and called to a laggard friend: "Hurry up, Lucille. If you stay behind, you won't get arrested with our group." Finally, outlined against the flames that shot 150 ft. in the air, there was the mass of Negroes barring with their bodies and with a rain of rocks, bottles and bricks the firemen who had rushed to save a white man's store. For more than a month, Negro demonstrations in Birmingham had sputtered, bursting occasionally into flames, then flickering out. Martin Luther King, the Negroes' inspirational but sometimes inept leader, had picked this...
AMERICAN LEAGUE Los Angeles at Boston, ppd. rain Baltimore 6Washington 1 New York 2 Minnesota 1 Kansas City 5 Cleveland 2 Chicago 3 Detroit 0 NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 2 Cincinnati 1 Milwaukee 4 St. Louis...
Kansas City 2, Minnesota 1 (2nd-ppd rain...