Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...edge of the Central Highlands where a U.S. battery of 155-mm. howitzers and another of 105 mm. had been dug in for a month. Three platoons of the 1st Cavalry were on duty defending the twelve big guns and their crews. Under cover of evening rain, elements of North Viet Nam's 22nd Regiment slithered up the hill, snipping the detonating wires of Claymore mines strung round the camp, and neutralizing trip flares. They ran their field-telephone wires to within 15 ft. of the U.S. perimeter...
After a week of pushing through militant picket lines to get to class, fending off soggy leaflets, standing in the rain for hours at mass rallies to find out what was going on, straining to hear professors over the noise of the amplified strike pleas echoing through the campus, and being called obscene names by hippies when I tried to buy a sandwich at the cafeteria, I decided that this would be a nicer place to get an education if Mario Savio would stop bugging us. Has anybody thought of drafting...
...bounding into her old music-hall routines. Everyone but Harrison was amused, but in the New York premiere he, too, came to appreciate Julie. As the stage manager recalls it, during the first act when Eliza, Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering fall back on the couch together after The Rain in Spain, Harrison suddenly dried up. He couldn't remember his next line, and the audience held its breath-until Julie grabbed hands and pulled them back to their feet. "Let's take a little bow, boys," she chirped. They did-and Harrison picked up his line...
...Biblical Joseph accurately prophesied seven good and seven bad years for Egypt-stem from his observation of an ancient custom among Israel's nomadic Bedouins. After any October in which there is moderate rainfall, the desert wanderers move out of the Negev into more hospitable land. "Early rain," they explain confidently, "means a dry year...
...position and movement of the troughs are significant, says Krown, because they are associated with the streams of cold air that suddenly spill down from the Arctic every October, bringing clouds and rain to herald the change of seasons. "If I am finally proved right," he says, "there ought to be similar findings at similar latitudes." The latitudes he is talking about are between 30° and 50° north of the equator, which includes the southern part of the U.S., where both agriculture and business could benefit from more accurate long-range weather forecasting...