Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rain & Buckets. As primary day approached, the forecasters said that Mitchell needed sunny spring weather to bring out a big enough popular vote to overcome the solid blocs controlled by the party. Primary day dawned grey and wet-but the voters still sloshed to the polls in near-record numbers. Mitchell piled up big margins in Essex and Union counties, whipped Jones by 42,000 votes...
John E. Donahue '64 was the only person in the room at the time of the accident. "I was just studying," he said, "when I thought I heard rain. Then I looked up and a big chunk came out of the ceiling." Donahue, visibly shaken by the experience, said that the plaster crashed to the floor less than a foot from where he was sitting. "The chair I had been sitting in 15 minutes before was completely covered," he said...
...lacrosse game scheduled with Holy Cross for yesterday afternoon was postponed because of rain. It has not been decided on what date the game will now be played. The next scheduled game is with Pennsylvania, April...
...Indians have lost only to Miami--perhaps the best team in the country... and have beaten three of the same opponents as Harvard, by slightly greater margins. Today's match should be close and exciting, although both teams have had their practice sessions curtailed by the incessant New England rain...
Still Palmer managed to keep up the pressure. After rain washed out half a day's play, the defending champion squared away for the final 18, and teed off into gusty winds to whittle away at Player's lead. He turned the front nine in 33 and gained back a stroke. Player's deftness with a pitching wedge (riddled with holes to lighten its weight) let him take only eleven putts on the first nine-but he misjudged a chip shot on the loth, and Palmer was only two strokes back...