Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caroline had just landed on the rain-soaked runway at Palm Beach airport and was taxiing up to the apron when the message came in over the pilot's radio that an emergency telephone call was waiting. Hostess Janet Desrosiers rushed back with the message to Jack Kennedy's rear compartment. As he emerged from the plane, Kennedy was told that his wife was in the hospital. He paused only long enough to shout back at the plane, "We'll be going right back," then hurried grimly to the phone behind a flying wedge of Secret Service...
...lone student holding a balloon picketed President Pusey's house in the rain. On the balloon was written "Repudiate Propaganda in the University," and, underneath, "Hot Air for Balloon Supplied by Hon. Francis Walter...
...swashing across the decks of the Bounty, or boxing with Spencer Tracy in San Francisco, or pouring the carafe of water over the Big Boss's head in The Hucksters. He often pioneered shock scenes. In Red Dust (1932) he discovered Jean Harlow bathing in a rain barrel, and in It Happened One Night (1934) he shared a tourist cabin with Claudette Colbert, their beds divided by a blanket stretched on a rope. In the same picture, when he took off his shirt and revealed nothing but a glossy chest, he touched off a crisis among undershirt manufacturers...
GOOD WEATHER INC. will offer tourists the first insurance against rain on European tours. Introduced by Scandinavian Airlines, each day of the 16-day tour is divided into three six-hour segments. The first eight rainy periods are deductible, but after that a policyholder collects $5 for every period in which it rains...
...well that any native wearing only a loincloth is now derided as mtu hivi hivi -a wild man. The men like dark jackets, preferably dinner jackets, and the bigger the satin lapels the better. The clothes campaign has had fair success with East African women: despite the dearth of rain, the ladies' most popular item is a used raincoat-with nothing underneath...