Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call through to his father in Hyannisport, asked if Daughter Caroline and Son John ought to be moved from the summer house to higher ground. At 5 a.m. on Thursday, the President's children, along with six of their cousins, were awakened and driven 18 miles through the rain to refuge at Otis Air Force Base...
...universally acclaimed as the best of the century, but the fermentation was disappointing, and already many '59 wines have turned bad. "A wine is like a child who arrives in the world." muses one expert. "It may seem perfect, but time may reveal certain imperfections. If we get rain now, it will change everything. A little night fog, though, will give the grapes just the right freshness...
...same time. Bowen was more intrigued by the streams of meteors that the earth passes through on regular schedule. When he looked up the dates of known meteor showers, he found that they seemed to precede every peak of heavy rainfall on his charts. The prominent rain peak on Jan. 12 came 30 days after the Geminid meteor shower of Dec. 13. Other rain peaks came at about the same interval after other meteor showers. The explanation, said Bowen, was clear: meteor showers seed the top of the atmosphere with microscopic dust particles that make clouds form droplets big enough...
...space. During meteor showers, he feels sure, the smallest meteoric particles hit the atmosphere softly and sink slowly toward earth. Larger meteors burn up, their smoke-fine debris sinking with the rest. The particles take about 30 days to reach the lower atmosphere, where they then turn clouds into rain...
...course at Pebble Beach, Calif., was drenched in rain, shrouded by fog and whipped by wind during the day's play. But blond, burly Jack Nicklaus, 21, a student at Ohio State University, proved again that he was the world's finest amateur golfer by routing 22-year-old Dudley Wysong of McKinney, Texas, 8 and 6, to regain the U.S. National Amateur Golf Championship...