Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rockets laden with chemicals, melting the hail before it lifts the wheat fields. As for more mundane matters, vacationers on Cape Cod will have a clammy morning-but only until 10:40 a.m. And the working girls in Chicago had better go to lunch plastic-headed: it will rain from...
...Sanskrit devotions. Moslems turned toward Mecca and sought Allah's mercy. Fire-worshiping Parsis invoked Zoroaster. For 30 minutes one day, even the frenzied babble of Bombay's stock exchange subsided into a quiet whisper of prayers. All were looking to the heavens for the same thing: rain...
Part of his hold on Indonesia is mystical. In a land that believes fervently in spirits, sorcerers and prophets, he has become a genuine folk hero, identified in Java with a 14th century Prime Minister who built a great empire, and in Bali with Vishnu, the god of rain. Many of his countrymen believe that Sukarno is blessed with kesaktian, a supernatural magic power that protects him from evil and makes him superhuman. Palace servants used to sell bottles of his bath water to peasants, who hoped that by drinking it they would inherit some of his magic...
...house is his castle." This right was eloquently put by William Pitt: "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail-its roof may shake-the wind may blow through it-the storms may enter-the rain may enter-but the King of England cannot enter...
Cecil A. Roberts, director of Buildings and Grounds, said yesterday that the damage presented absolutely no danger, and that "it is being repaired for appearance and to keep the rain out." The present repairs are also an attempt to eliminate the possibility of new ruptures...