Word: raining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...layer of glare ice to an already chilly relationship. The Brazilians had hoped that Carter's visit would ease tensions-centering on nuclear proliferation and human rights-between the two countries. Carter created another kind of scheduling problem for himself in Paris. Unless he can cash his rain check by early 1978, the President will run smack into France's March elections; the French left might well accuse him of giving an unfair boost to President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and his allies...
Approximately 23,5000 voters slogged their way through the rain yesterday, as opposed to the 28,000 who voted in the last city council election...
While approximately 150 students reluctantly left Lamont to wait in the rain or go elsewhere to study, the Cambridge Fire Department shut off the power to the pump 20 minutes after the air-conditioner short-circuited...
Neither wind nor rain, nor dark of night could keep the women's soccer team from their appointed victory yesterday, as the unstoppable Crimson gained its third consecutive win, conquering Boston University 4-1, on the strength of three second-half goals...
Fossilization takes place only under special conditions. An animal or plant that dies and is soon after buried in mud or covered by volcanic ash stands a decent chance of being preserved; one that perishes in a jungle or rain forest will probably break down into its chemical components and simply disappear. Few fossils that are formed survive; most are destroyed by the continuing erosion of wind and water. Fewer still are discovered. Though hominid fossils may exist elsewhere, they are found most abundantly-and frequently-in eastern Africa. There, geological processes have exposed layer upon layer of sediments that...