Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that long disuse and the corrosion of the salt-laden ocean air had all but ruined what was left of the British facilities on the island. The harbor was silted with sand. The water supply system was nothing more than a deep ditch cut into the coral to catch rain water. The airstrip was pocked with holes that would snap off a landing gear. The buildings were ready to fall down...
...United Nations (even habitually dour Russian Ambassador Valerian Zorin congratulated him warmly), and cheerfully endured the affection of celebrities who swarmed around him. But the surest measure of Glenn's apotheosis from man to hero could be found in the millions of Americans who endured chilly rain or crystalline cold to catch a glimpse of him as he rode by-or watched his progress on TV almost as eagerly as they had followed his flight through space. The U.S. would have showered its gratitude on any man who put the U.S. back in the space race; the surprise...
Stirred into water and sprayed on the advancing insect armies, the mix starts a deadly chain reaction, one caterpillar infecting another until they are wiped out. Better yet, some infected caterpillars live long enough to spin cocoons. For years the rain that trickles over the dead cocoons spreads virulent spores and protects the forest from a new invasion of caterpillars...
Sandra practices her sirenship on Sales Manager Mansford, whose wife is pregnant; his reaction to her experimental kiss is to be sick with guilt in a carton of perfume. She even takes her clothes off and manages to get them on again before anyone really notices. Moments of truth rain devastatingly down...
...writer of A Hatful of Rain didn't know what he wrote." Miss Winters said. "He wanted the force of death to win," but the audience sided with Miss Winters as a pregnant girl...