Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While preparations were being made, the President presided over a 45-minute National Security Council meeting. Then he left the White House, walked through the cold rain and fog to a limousine where Bobby Kennedy and Sister Jean Kennedy Smith were waiting. Three minutes after they boarded the big presidential jet, Air Force One, the plane took off for Florida...
...things turned out, most of the precautions seemed superfluous. Intermittent rain was falling at Caracas' Maiquetia Airport when the Kennedys arrived. They had to huddle with President and Mrs. Betancourt under big blue umbrellas. "I am proud to be the first U.S. President to visit here," said Kennedy to a crowd of 300-all meticulously screened before they were allowed on the airport premises. Responded Betancourt: "The case today is one of a United States President who is rectifying a long period of ignorance and lack of comprehension of the problems of Latin America...
From the moment that Israeli agents in Argentina flashed home the coded message 19 months ago, "The beast is in chains," there has been no doubt over the verdict in the case of Adolf Eichmann. Last week, as a chill rain fell on the deserted streets outside Jerusalem's Beit Haam (House of the People), the three Israeli judges returned to the courtroom in which, for four months, they heard 1,350,000 words of testimony. The crowd expected to hear first a detailed, legalistic defense of Israel's right to try Eichmann. Instead, Presiding Judge Moshe Landau...
...doesn't snow today, there may be a "light sleet." If there's no sleet, there's bound to be a little rain. Or it may just stay cloudy, windy, and what the Weather Bureau chooses to call "seasonably cold...
...blast render defence of the metropolitan area impossible (the central city being the target); but if the bomb is detonated at that height, fall-out is minimized. Piel thus presents the vision of people being suffocated and cremated in backyard shelters, protecting themselves against fall-out that will never rain...