Word: raining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That may take a long time. Fully 85,000 Lebanese and Palestinians in Lebanon are homeless, and there is little hope of finding space before winter winds and rain begin next month. Damour, twelve miles south of Beirut, was once an affluent community of 10,000 Christians. Palestinians from the ruined refugee camp of Tel Zaatar, the scene of some of Beirut's bloodiest fighting, now live in Damour's bombed-out, windowless buildings, existing on a single loaf of bread a day. 'We have to scrounge for anything else to eat,' complained...
...Ludwig's most intriguing ventures is little known outside his 34th-floor offices in Manhattan's Burlington House. In 1967 Ludwig paid $3 million to a group of Brazilian families for a 4,650-sq.-mi. swatch of rain forest in Brazil's remote Amazon region. He then set in motion a bold plan for developing the tract, which is almost the size of the state of Connecticut, to help meet the future world shortages of food, lumber, and wood pulp for papermaking that he expects. Although the crisis has not appeared?at least not yet?Ludwig has quietly...
...closing, we ask Mr. Savit if he really thinks that that grey, overcast day which threatened rain was really a "beautiful autumn afternoon." Did you actually make it up to the game, Mr. Savit? Six Dartmouth students
...rain came down in sheets and the entire team came down with colds, but in the bleak gloominess of an October Saturday in Providence a new era dawned for Radcliffe athletics when a pioneering women's cross-country team chalked up its first victory ever by finishing 1-2-3-4 against Brown...
...Zeus sent down sorrow as well as joy to the Crimson team that afternoon, as the same rain that blessed the Radcliffe win also fell on top gun Eleanor Apthorp, who was absent from the meet, with a severe case of the flu that kept her bedridden for the rest of the season. Briefly, the day symbolized the frustrating and rather shaky beginnings of Radcliffe's first cross-country season...