Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, modern life is already rife with ancient superstitions that will probably never go out of style. But the new phenomenon is the upsurge in new superstitions-the faith in flying saucers, the theory that H-bomb tests caused rain and that the test ban has since caused droughts. Even scientists are highly susceptible to superstitious beliefs. One California physicist who flies to Washington once a month eases his fear of a crash by carrying a special amulet: a copy of TIME, a magazine he otherwise dislikes...
...chemicals are of a nontoxic, noncorrosive variety commonly used in the disposal of sewage and industrial wastes. One type, known as polyelectrolytes, imparts tiny electrical charges to the billions of airborne water droplets. Once charged, the droplets attract one another, combine, and often plunge to the ground as rain. Even if no precipitation occurs, the reduction of the number of droplets in the air alone improves visibility. Other chemicals, called surfactants, push the fog-clearing process along by relaxing the droplets' surface tension, the contracting tendency that helps give them their particular size and shape...
...surprise of the more skeptical Sultanites, the festival did not turn Sky River into a shambles at all. True, some locals did notice that a few kids seemed to take pleasure in making love in the rain-soaked woods, but this was rather tolerantly interpreted as a harmless aberration of the hippie culture. At any rate, the music was not so terrible and, besides, the hippies were rather charming. It tickled the townsfolk to hear the kids say that the Sun Dance had been the festival's moment of truth, that without it the proceedings would have been...
...Indian music and mysticism. Since Davies' book went into type John has left his wife and son for the Japanese artist Yoko Ono, and has put his suburban house up for sale. John trims away friends, will lie for hours curled on a sofa staring at the rain. He has gone for three days without speaking...
Outside, monsoon rain was falling on a blue-and-white plaster Madonna whose forehead had been punctured by a bullet. Steiner was standing in the refectory, the strain of the war lining his face. "You must save Aba at any cost," pleaded Ojukwu. "You must hold the place-is that clear?" Steiner hesitated. "Mon colonel, I was only a sergeant in the Legion," he said. "I cannot command a division." Replied Ojukwu: "Oh, but you will. And you will hold...