Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of 23 Frenchwomen making a Holy Land pilgrimage under the tutelage of a Parisian priest, Abbé Jean Steinmann, 52, vicar of Notre Dame:* the second was a larger group of Italian pilgrims. The French party gaily entered the Siq gorge just as a sprinkle of rain began to fall. Four were traveling in a Land-Rover, the rest on foot...
Suddenly, the light rain became a cloudburst-the worst in arid Petra's recorded history. Within half an hour, torrential floods were streaming down from the hills and cliffs and pouring into the Siq as into a funnel. One Italian pilgrim said, "We heard shrieks and cries within the ravine, as the muddy cascade of water rushed by us. We saw the little car with the four women and the driver swept along by the torrent and then submerged. In an instant, they all disappeared in the floodwaters raging along at perhaps 60 miles an hour...
...applying for a marriage license in Santa Monica, Calif., all set to wed on April 20. "I don't think 22 is too young to get married, if you have found the right girl," said Rick, and Kristin, daughter of former football great Tommy Harmon, looked right as rain. Whether she will join Rick in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet remained to be seen, but with those clannish Nelsons gaining such a pretty new face, it seemed a safe...
...scattered southwestern cotton fields, the slow, soft green of spring is sprouting against a strange background: glittering gridirons of broad black stripes. Paper-thin strips of polyethylene plastic stretch across the fields, warming the soil, conserving water, choking out weeds, protecting the land against the erosion of wind and rain. And if the coddled cotton crop that is even now poking tentatively into view grows close to its rich promise, its payoff may be the beginning of an agricultural revolution...
...second straight 73 to his opening round 74 and grumpily conceded that he was out of the running. "My putting stinks," he said. "I'll be glad when this is over." So would a lot of other golfers. The weather turned sour, and for five hours it poured rain. Cool and cautious, Nicklaus changed his leather glove five times in 18 holes, slashed a 74 that-bad as it was-was enough to give him the third round lead...