Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conclusion was hasty. As he breezed into the quarterfinal round without losing a set, Emerson took on his modestly talented countryman Owen Davidson. In the second set, Davidson popped a drop shot into Emerson's left forecourt. A fine rain earlier had coated the grass, and as he chased the dropper, Emerson skidded, crashed onto his shoulder and plowed into the umpire's high chair. Advantage Mr. Davidson. Match Mr. Davidson, in fact. Emerson had strained the ligaments in his left shoulder, and Wimbledon turned into a whole new tournament...
...people of France." Then, in perfectly polished Russian: "Long live Moscow! Long live Russia! Long live friendship between France and Russia!" At that cry, the lowering summer skies of Moscow burst with a Wagnerian thunderclap, lightning bolts crackled among the onion domes of the Kremlin, and the rain came streaming down...
...problem of suicide in A Most Peculiar Man or search for the supposed reference to an unwed mother in Little Girl or a whorehouse in Doll House. But the real snigger is in decoding the sexual innuendos. Sometimes it is easy: Lou Christie's Rhapsody in the Rain, for example, was banned by many radio stations because, as the program director for WLS in Chicago, Gene Taylor, explains, "There was no question about what the lyrics and the beat implied-sexual intercourse in a car, making love to the rhythm of the windshield wipers." A tougher test...
...India, and De Kalb (Ill.) Agricultural Association, Inc., is about to expand its Punjab seed farm. American Cyanamid is teaching livestock raising in Thailand, Venezuela and 18 other countries. Caterpillar Tractor this month began a land-development demonstration in which it will clear 250 acres of Costa Rican rain forest, build five miles of access roads for farms big enough (25 acres) to feed more than their own occupants...
...hitting the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese reinforcements where they live (see map), seizing enemy stockpiles of rice and salt and weapons. Even in the enemy redoubts where ground forces have not yet penetrated, the threat of the bombs from high-flying Guam-based B-52s, falling like rain from a silent sky, haunts the Communists' sleep, keeps them on the move...