Word: raining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people east of the Rockies choked, Californians were enjoying what was a welcome phenomenon for that parched state: rain fell for five days -the first substantial precipitation in eight weeks. At least temporarily, the culprit responsible for much of the nation's wild and freezing weather-the stationary high-pressure system off the California coast-had broken up. Its departure allowed westerly winds to carry clouds over the Rockies and dump long-overdue snow on barren slopes in Oregon, Wyoming and Colorado. California's refreshed farmers reveled in the rain, and mountain ski operators romped in the snow...
Even as far east as Illinois, where there were some heavy rains last week, wells are going dry. In Virginia, Ill. (pop. 1,800), the town reservoir has only a 30-day supply of water left. Lee Reynolds shut down his car wash. The local Laundromat was about to close-but it burned down first. Water is so scarce in many South Dakota towns, like Toronto (pop. 200), that assembly of a rescue "rain train" of 100 tank cars carrying 20,000 gallons each from the Missouri River is under consideration. Toronto's Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Daniel Chell...
...active. Today, Orland is better known as a victim of a savage drought that is entering its second year. Its orchards, dairies, small farms and citizens are all in trouble, and the bars and churches are better patronized than ever before. In fact, the churches have been holding rain prayer meetings from 10 in the morning until 10 at night-so far to no avail...
Other well-meaning if farfetched schemes have been suggested as instant solutions to the Great Western Drought. California's Governor Jerry Brown received one proposal from a correspondent urging a statewide "psychic day," during which California's entire populace would join in a spiritual summons for rain. Another suggested a state give-away of disposable diapers, presumably to cut down on use of washing machines. Still another writer, offering to come to California and display his rainmaking skills, insisted: "The only thing I require is air fare and faith...
...like working for Napoleon. She's a great general," says Actress Candice Bergen of her latest director, Lino Wertmuller. Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini are in Rome filming A Night Full of Rain, Wertmuller's first movie in English. To make it, Wertmuller says, is like "flying blind." Giannini spent six months studying the language for his part as an English-speaking Italian journalist. As for Bergen, cast as a former American college radical who falls in love with Giancarlo, she has different language problems. "At this point, my English is beginning to break up," she says. "I find...