Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meteorologists have long tried to make rain and break up hailstorms by seeding clouds with silver iodide or lead iodide. Drifting upward from generators on the ground or fed into the clouds from aircraft, the particles become nuclei around which tiny water droplets can cluster to form larger drops and, eventually, hailstones. If enough nuclei are available, according to theory, they compete so vigorously for the moisture in the cloud that none of the hailstones has a chance to become very large...
...portrays the man's pure hate; it is calm, intelligent, and unrepentant. Others, says Styron, "hate but with a hatred which is all sullenness and impotent resentment, like the helpless, resigned fury one feels toward indifferent Nature throughout long days of relentless heat or after periods of unceasing rain." Nat, however, had known the white man and had been cultivated...
...Bulldozers gouged a 10-ft.-high earth embankment across one stretch, sacrificing the airport to save the city's core. Water mains burst and sewers backed up, spurting like geysers, as exhausted workers clung to the defense perimeter. Armed guards battled diamondback rattlesnakes as plentiful as worms after rain. Bushes turned black with water-shy tarantulas, and the mosquito population exploded beyond control...
...hopes soon to adapt the uranium flechettes for firing from a multi-barreled, rotary Gatling gun that can spew out hundreds of rounds per second. When this weapon system has been perfected, there seems little that will be able to stand in the way of its deadly rain of uranium bullets...
...Jones pushed a single past Shannon, and Schoendinst trotted out to greet left-hander Joe Hoerner--the greatest thing to happen to Boston since A1 Worthington. Yaz belted a tape-measure drive some 430 feet into the right field swarm, and the Sox lead 5-0. Boston skies gushed rain, and the lights went on at Fenway