Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Concepcion, which has been destroyed five times in the past by earthquakes, only the earthquake-proof buildings put up after the city was last shattered in 1939 survived the first shudder. The cold, rain and sleet of subequatorial winter chilled the survivors as they dug through the ruins for bodies, or camped in the open, waiting numbly for the next jolt. Six old volcanoes and three new ones came to angry life as channels cracked open to lava beds. Just north of the town of Rupanco, a flood of boiling lava poured into Lake Ranco and swept over the town...
Outside the tall arched windows of the Great Kremlin Hall, rain squalls chased the spring sunbeams across Moscow's sky. Inside, the 1,378 members of what passes for the Soviet Union's parliament sat tense and expectant at long rows of neat desks. Diplomats, newsmen, and a delegation from Ghana stared down from packed galleries. At the tribune hunched the familiar, round, shiny-pated figure of Nikita Khrushchev. His voice was strident and bitter. Gone was the bland old bluster about "peace and friendship," as the Soviet boss, in we-will-bury-you language, denounced...
When a torrential rain turned the crust of dust to gumbo, Brazil's officials gave up and retreated. Back to Rio went Finance Minister Sebastião Paes de Almeida, leaving behind an eight-man outpost. Public Works Minister Ernani do Amaral Peixoto sat in Rio signing documents datelined Brasilia and confidentially told visitors: "Officially, I'm in Brasilia." Of eleven Ministers who originally appeared, eight departed. After a quick ten-minute inaugural session, the Supreme Court recessed to June 30; the Senate, without furniture, recessed to June...
...Stroking steadily over the Charles River, Harvard's powerful crew skimmed the mile-and-three-quarter course in 8:43.4 to set a new course record. Left in the Crimson's wake: Rutgers, Wisconsin, M.I.T. and Boston University. ¶ Unheeding of the raw wind and rain at last week's Penn Relays, High Jumper John Thomas, 19, loped toward the barrier, kicked high, sailed over the bar to set a world's outdoor record of 7 ft. 1½ in. The previous mark of 7 ft. 1 in. was set by Russian High Jumper Yuri Stepanov...
...pure lady bids the rake kill himself only for him to be killed in a duel, as the righteous judge rejects the wife he thinks was raped and she takes poison, rejecting life itself, Giraudoux's artificial story remains scrupulously behind glass. But gusts of realistic rain or melodramatic sleet from time to time beat against it. Giraudoux cleverly lets his characters remark how tragedy is jostling farce, or drama is encroaching on comedy. But the play, as it plunges over rapids in which both men and women are hurt, and virtue and vice are drowned, is kept between...