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Word: raines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apiece. Another is Honduras' biggest development project, the Rio Lindo-Lake Yojoa hydroelectric plant, which will eventually deliver 165,000 kw., enough to treble the nation's electricity, and bring hopeful new industry to the tiny towns sitting forlornly in the untilled savannas and tropical rain forests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honduras: Blue & White v. Red | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...exits are either barricaded or booby-trapped. A rumor of gas causes mass hysteria. A simple cough is like a thunderbolt that brings on a rain of German grenades. A classical pianist plays a melancholy tune on his sweet-potato pipe and quotes Dante's Inferno as his mind ebbs away "in the lake's foul bottom, plunged in dung"-a grim elegy that unites all their fates. A sentient lover (Tadeusz Janczar) pretends "we're walking in a dark and fragrant wood," but his blonde, tough-minded mistress (Teresa Izewska) shatters the illusion tersely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pair from Poland | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...victory over Dartmouth Wednesday, the Crimson will be going for its third victory in GBL competition. Harvard has lost three games against Eastern League opponents, and can boast of only two wins as opposed to three loses. Three of the nine scheduled games were called off because of rain. They were against Army, Renn, and Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Squad Will Face Yale In Final Eastern League Game | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...varsity baseball game with Brandeis which was cancelled yesterday because of rain will be played this afternoon at Brandeis. A victory in this afternoon's contest would bring the Crimson back to the .500 mark with a 9-9 record, and put it in second place in the Greater Boston League with a 4-2 mark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE TO PLAY TODAY | 5/10/1961 | See Source »

...economy and speed." Its rhythms are supple, pleasing and forceful--ranging from the near hexameters of Isaiah's cry, "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" (Isa. xiv: 12) to the bold anapests of the song of Moses, "My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distill as the dew." (Deut. xxxii, 2). And then the publication of the Authorized Version came at a time when the English language itself was expanding at a truly violent rate...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: The New English Bible: Truth in Bureaucratese | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

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