Word: raining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year. The major part of this hoard-11,250,000 bales, 5,625,000,000 pounds-lies in warehouses in the South, assigned to the Government for "loans" in hock to the U. S. taxpayer, who is paying $123,000 a day to keep it in out of the rain. If it were to be shared equally, every man, woman and child in the U. S. would have to go to the warehouses and carry away 43 Ibs. of cotton on his back...
...Rain Maker...
Florida's civic fathers agreed that drainage had been overdone, nature's balance upset. They 1) named a permanent protective committee to look after Florida's wilderness in future, 2) prayed solemnly for rain...
...racquet games is court tennis, which Nausicaa and her maidens reputedly played by batting a ball with their hands. For the last 700 years it has been played with a lopsided, gut-strung racquet that looks as if it might have been left out in the rain. Once the game was a pastime of the European masses, but like other mass delights, it has become much too good for them. Since the 15th Century every British and French king worth mentioning has played it, moving one of its chroniclers to write: "It is the characteristic game...
...town was Southampton, the story fictitious. But Ordeal makes the air raid and the days that follow as natural as death. The raid had come about midnight-without warning, without sound of planes. The Corbett house was not hit. Only the windows were missing, letting a cold March rain sough in over the rugs and furniture. "What's it all about, anyway?" asked Corbett. "I dunno," said Neighbor Littlejohn...