Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...September, William and Elizabeth Bowman went on a trip to the East to try to recover their nerves. They returned to find all their windows smashed by bottles; their furniture had been ruined by inpouring rain. On Nov. 6, the tires on Bowman's car were slashed, and dents were pounded into its hood and sides. The next day, the windows were smashed, and on the house was written "Eichmann" in lipstick letters 20 inches high. On March 16, a fire was set with a sulphur bomb on the fender of Bowman's car. Uncalled delivery trucks arrived...
Chanting Algérie algérienne, the demonstrators at first shuffled peacefully by in the rain. But at the Rond-point de la Défense, just outside Neuilly, the rabble borrowed its tactics from French extremists in Algiers and Oran: slashing tires, overturning cars, shattering shop windows. Shots rang out and police, flailing night sticks and heavily weighted capes, clashed headlong with...
...Japan reported that rain falling on Oct. 14 on Wakkanai, Hokkaido, was 3,000 times as radioactive as rain analyzed before the Russians resumed testing...
...TROPOSPHERIC FALLOUT. In temperate latitudes, most of the dust, and part of the cloud, never gets higher than some 35,000 ft. This collection of nuclear fission products is the tropospheric fallout, and since the troposphere is the part of the earth's atmosphere that contains rain clouds, even its finest particles of radioactive material are likely to be carried back to the ground by falling snowflakes or water droplets...
Searching unsuccessfully for the royal road of the Persian kings, the expedition uncovered the grand shopping street of Sardis. This street, some 50 feet wide with marble pavement and sidewalks, was flanked by mosaicked colonnades, which enabled the citizens to shop or chat out of the sun or rain...