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Word: raining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Near Pikeville, a small coal center along the Big Sandy, people endured the rain and the resulting flood. Then a fire, touched off by leaking gasoline, destroyed the town library, a telephone-company building and a house. Finally, it snowed. In aptly named Hazard, Ky., Charlie Hammonds, a gas-station operator, managed to take calamity in stride. His reason: "This is the 26th time I've been flooded since I came here in 1957." At Jack's Union 76 Service Station near Sneedville, Tenn. (pop. 1,000). Owner Jack Stapleton even found cause for cheer, though the Clinch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEASONS: Spring: It's Lethal and Lovely | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

Chach [God of Rain]. At the Park Square Moviehouse, nightly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Listings | 4/14/1977 | See Source »

Radcliffe was supposed to play six matches, but the scheduled contest with Mary Baldwin College had to be called off twice, once because of rain, the other time because of snow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetwomen Falter In South, Win Two Matches, Lose Three | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...fatal rendezvous had originated in two points some 6,000 air miles apart. The relatively youthful KLM passengers, including three infants and 48 children under 18 years old, had boarded the KLM flight at Amsterdam's Schipol Airport. They were happily escaping rain, strong winds and some snow for individual vacations at resorts of their choice on Grand Canary Island, about 40 miles southeast of Tenerife. They had expected to land at Las Palmas, the Canaries' busiest city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: ...What's he doing? He'll kill us all!' | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...reached for the fire handles above his head. He grabbed only open sky. As the cockpit floor gave way, Captain Grubbs fell into the first-class compartment below, then somehow stumbled onto a wing and dropped to the ground. "Just to sink down in the green grass wet with rain was so heavenly," he said later. He might have stayed there?and died?but Purser Dorothy Kelly dragged him to safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: ...What's he doing? He'll kill us all!' | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

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