Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lone blot on the Crimson freshmen's ledger is a 5-4 defeat at Andover in rain and hall...
Assuming neither rain nor cold forces postponement, the Crimson will probably send Jim McCandlish against Dartmouth, currently in third place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League. McCandlish has had plenty of rest -- Columbia knocked him out in the fourth inning on Friday...
...Columbia game was spattered with errors, walks, hit batsmen, and plenty of water. Rain interrupted the contest twice as Harvard built up 4-1 and 8-3 leads and blow them. But a pair of neat squeeze plays in the seventh finally broke an 8-8 tie, as well as Columbia's six-game winning streak...
Lille's Socialist Mayor Augustin Laurent and most city councilors boycotted the welcoming ceremonies, and crowds were sparse when De Gaulle's black convertible Simca rolled up in a drumming rain. De Gaulle looked glum himself as he toured the annual Lille trade fair and peered myopically through thick-lensed horn-rims at model rail ways, bridal gowns of Lille lace, and a pair of red-trimmed pelicans that expressed the mood of the day by turning their backs on the President...
...caused the central and western part of the little island to sink and generated tsunamis (seismic sea waves) between 100 and 165 feet high. "Within 20 minutes, these waves hit the Cretan coast with terrifying fury," says Marinates, "destroying everything they could reach." The waves were accompanied by a rain of volcanic ash that buried nearly everything left standing and by fumes that poisoned the population. In the wake of the catastrophic eruption, most of the surviving Minoans fled Crete, sailing to other Mediterranean islands, mainland Greece and even Asia Minor...