Word: raining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some experts attribute the lack of rain to an absence of sunspots, others to recurring drought cycles. In any event, parts of the Great Plains have received so little rain that they are actually drier than at the onset of the great drought of '34. Starved for moisture, the rich topsoil in hard-hit areas of the Great Plains is turning into a fine brown silt. Winds hurl the dust particles against the still-growing sprouts, until they lose their color...
...sources say that almost all car thefts are for joy rides. In Massachusetts, borrowing a car is merely a misdemeanor, while keeping it is a felony. One Harvard patrolman says that car owners should be particularly wary on rainy nights--car thieves don't like to walk in the rain. Sexual crimes for the six-month period are low. Only exhibitionists and one "Peeping Tom" were arrested, but police say those figures will probably increase "when things warm...
...violence would focus on Palantine rather than, say, on Betsy. Scorsese reaches for something very big here, and he falls a little bit short. "Something has to be done," Travis writes in his diary. "There's too much dirt, too much filth here. I just wish a big rain would come and wash it away." The frustration is conveyed, but the connection to political assassination is muddled...
...Boston rally, which attracted about 500 listeners despite occasional sprinkles of rain, was a last-ditch effort to disseminate leaflets, pass the hat, and sing "This Land is Your Land"--Harris's "theme song...
...bright orange and blue blossom of the bird-of-paradise plant sways gently in the breeze. Moistened by a wintry rain, the leaves of an azalea shed pearls of water. Except for the tile mosaic of a skull that lies in their midst, the cluster of plants looks like just another pretty California backyard garden. In fact, the attractive foliage masks the sinister nature of the display. Located in a walled courtyard outside the pediatrics clinic at the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center in Fontana, Calif., the garden consists of 20 plants, all of them popular -and poisonous...