Word: raines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Polite Phrases. Next morning he splashed through a downpour without raincoat to lay white gladioli and yellow chrysanthemums at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, then sat next to former President Dwight Eisenhower at a White House luncheon. Back in the rain, he cruised the choppy Potomac for two hours with Kennedy on the presidential yacht Honey Fitz. Before leaving the U.S., Ikeda addressed the House of Representatives and flew on to New York, where, in polite phrases, he issued a clear warning: U.S. restrictions against Japanese products can hurt the Japanese economy-and that economy is vital...
...drenching rain and sweltering sunshine, they jammed Yankee Stadium. They were as plain-faced average as any baseball crowd, but to Witnesses the show was a kind of preview of the Kingdom they expect momentarily, when 144,000 of them will run heaven and the rest will inherit a purged earth to enjoy the everlasting life. At second base a speaker's platform slowly revolved, surrounded by banks of flowers and five umbrella-shaded clusters of chairs for notables. For six days, Witness leaders expounded the faith over 192 loudspeakers, drenching every cranny of the stadium with inspirational sound...
Before long the moonlight is glinting off Peck's jaw as he leads a crew of ruffians up an unclimbable rock face in a pelting rain. Suddenly he slips. In best White Tower tradition, the man who grabs Peck's wrist is his blood enemy, a dour Cretan guerrilla (Anthony Quinn) who has sworn to kill him when the war is over. Quinn's eyes flash. Will he let Peck fall? Not, the viewer may be sure, while there are still old war movies left to anthologize...
...enemy while kneeling beside his son in the mosque. The experience left Kemal with a stammer, which he cured by chanting the traditional songs of Turkish troubadours. This folk poetry glows in his description of the bleak Anatolian land where, each spring, it seems as if "a green rain has fallen," and by midsummer, the high plateaus are blue with thistles "rippling like the sea." There is also the settled villagers' nostalgia for a happier nomadic past, and repeated echoes of Nasr-ed-Din, the great comic hero whose wit and clownish wisdom have enlivened Turkish bazaars...
...hope springs eternal and all that, and, when the rain stopped after 25 minutes, the fans marched to their seats with renewed expectations. But as soon as the players took the field, at 3:05 p.m., Cambridge responded with some more of the usual, and the game was called after a feeble attempt at an inning...