Word: raining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visitor bending anxiously over him. Finally, the patient opens his eyes and explains in a discreet Irish brogue that he kept silent because he wanted to savor the moment: "It's been six months here since I've had a drink, and your breath is like the rain from heaven...
...What makes me run?" Bailey has written. "I burn, dammit, that's why. I like to run." It is the same with flying. Bailey almost never delays a flight in his own aircraft. "It goes no matter what," and the "what" may be rain, snow, ice, fog, turbulence, thunderstorm or some combination thereof. One white-knuckled regular on these flights reports that Bailey invariably ends the hairiest trips by chortling: "Well, we've defeated the grim reaper once again...
...even to that. A neighborhood that he remembers as part of Chinatown has become mostly Puerto Rican, and as Salisbury walks along familiar streets his mind begins to play tricks on him. He imagines that he hears the voices of Puerto Rican youths shouting after him. It begins to rain, and Salisbury thinks to himself, "not likely anyone will come after me in the rain." It is then that he reaches Forsyth Street and his island of light, and when he finds a beacon of hope in the mission school's dogged good work, you still smell his fear...
...welcoming ceremony on the sodden south lawn of the White House, President Ford and Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin stoically stood bareheaded in the cold rain while a fife-and-drum ensemble dressed in Continental Army uniforms drilled before them. Since Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had been treated to an outdoor reception during his triumphant visit last November, the same courtesy had to be extended to Rabin-rain or shine. "According to Jewish tradition," said Rabin, glancing at the skies, "rain means blessing...
...Neither rain nor thaw will stay the bobsled racers from their rounds at speeds up to 70 m.p.h. at Innsbruck. The course, which cost $5 million to construct, is artificially refrigerated. Unfortunately, say the speed freaks who will use it, it is too safe and far too short. West German Baker Wolfgang Zimmerer, who won a gold and a bronze in Sapporo in 1972, complains that the brevity of the course places undue emphasis on quick starts...