Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visit to Manchester in a driving rain, Yuri took one look at the waiting crowds and insisted the top be kept down on his Bentley convertible for the drive into the city. "If they can stand in the rain,'' he said, "so can I." The Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers presented him with an honorary membership medal inscribed "Moulding Together for a Better World." Replied onetime Metalworker Yuri graciously: "I am still a foundry worker at heart...
...Rain splattered last week over the northern plains, but it was too late and too little to save them from the ravages of an all-too-familiar plague: the summer drought. After a summer so far almost without rain, the all-important spring wheat crop in Montana, the Dakotas and the Canadian prairie provinces will be a near failure. Some of the fields are hardly worth harvesting; others have been mowed for forage. East of the Rocky Mountains most of the ranges are bare, and cattle are being fed with trucked-in hay or grain. If heavy rain falls...
...Canada. Since air circulates clockwise around a high-pressure area, the ridge brought dry air streaming down from northern Canada. In a normal year the ridge would have shifted gradually eastward, allowing warm, moist air to flow northwest from the Gulf of Mexico and bring normal rain to the high plains. But this year the high-pressure area stuck stubbornly over the Rockies during June and the first half of July. The dry, sunny weather that it brought dried out and heated the earth's surface, and hot air rising upward intensified the high-pressure area and its drought...
Last week the pesky ridge finally moved westward toward the Pacific-at least temporarily-permitting moist air to reach the high plains and letting a little rain fall. The Weather Bureau's 30-day forecast, issued late last week, predicts that the ridge will move farther out into the Pacific, allowing more than normal rain to moisten the droughty area...
Newport, R.I., Playhouse: Rain, weather permitting...