Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory on the rain-soaked Princeton field was the most inspiring display of team enthusiasm, precision passing, and scoring power Bruce Munro's team has turned in this season...
...Quakers of Penn will try to regain some respectability after their total collapse in the Cambridge rain last week. Penn isn't nearly as bad as they looked in Harvard town, and they might make a comeback in New Haven today...
After the Crimson's feeble performance against Dartmouth two weeks ago, it seemed the varsity's best defense against the swift Princeton backfield would surely be prayer. But John Yovicsin's outfit turned in its top performance of the year in routing Penn, 36-0, last weak in the rain and the cold. And the talk this week where the faithful gather has been cautiously optimistic...
Waterworks & TV. Beneath this vast, smothering blanket is the American farmer-still an individualist. He remains rooted to the earth, bound for good or ill to the wind and the rain, the snow and the sun. He is still conservative, somewhat distrustful of the outsider, does much of his buying by mail, and throws his nickels around as if they were manhole covers. He complains endlessly about his lot, but he would not trade with anyone. He is likely to own a "waterworks" (indoor plumbing), a Deepfreeze, a piano, television and hi-fi sets, and a bank account...
Moscow often had tried rocket diplomacy of sorts in the past. Khrushchev once told Greece that he would rain nuclear destruction on the Acropolis, and he as good as promised Chancellor Konrad Adenauer that West Germany would become a "funeral pyre." But these were only what diplomats have come to call "missile letters." Never before had the Kremlin risked using missiles themselves to push its policies. It had not permitted Warsaw Pact allies to have offensive missiles, and had never, in fact, dared allow them off the soil of the Soviet Union. Why had Khrushchev done...