Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thirty demonstrators gathered in the rain at the Commonwealth Avenue restaurant and picketed solemnly for two hours. Their signs read "28 Flavors But Only One Color" and "100 Arrested in North Carolina For Eating...
...Wheeling airport, Sonny Day's six-piece combo-the same outfit that had blatted out High Hopes and Happy Days for Kennedy in 1960-struggled manfully on electric accordion, tuba, cornet, saxophone, trumpet and trombone to render Hail to the Chief. Rain was falling steadily when Kennedy arrived at the high school football stadium for the political rally. But 7,500 persons were nonetheless on hand to hear and cheer him. Coatless, Kennedy strode through the rain to the covered platform. "When I come back to West Virginia," he declared. "I feel as if I was coming home...
Only a step-up in the downpour cooled off the President and brought him to a quick close. "I have too high regard for this state to have the rain fall upon all of you, but I want you to know how much I appreciate your coming here tonight in a cold, rainy night. I come to West Virginia tonight for the purpose of asking your help in giving us the men and women who, joining together in Washington, can help West Virginia and the country move forward...
...Barcelona's 1,750,000 people celebrated the Festival of Our Lady of Mercy, the agonizing drought ended. There was a promising thunderclap and as the winds rose, the city's lights failed; in darkness, Barcelonians climbed to the roofs of their houses to welcome the rain. But soon, as one woman put it, "the water turned into a monster...
...rain is expected to end this morning, but cold winds of 25-30 miles per hour are predicted for the afternoon. In any event, the tarp on the field and the new drainage system should keep the turf firm for at least the first half...