Word: raining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hundred miles to the west in Salisbury, Rhodesia's pleasant, tree-lined capital, a "troopie" wearing the black beret of Prime Minister Ian Smith's security forces looked up from his post on downtown Jameson Avenue as the season's first dark rain clouds came scudding over the rooftops. "Damn," he said, scowling to his partner. "I was hoping it would hold off a bit longer. The 'terrs' [white Rhodesians' shorthand for terrorists] will be tougher than ever in the rains this year...
After a second exchange of punts, with the rain getting heavier by the minute, Cornell got a well-deserved break...
...first quarter opened the way first quarters on rain-drenched fields are supposed to open. The only meaningful statistic concerned the number of slips and dropped balls, and if rain ever proved more of an equalizer, then Noah composed "Rain Drops Keep Fallin' On My Head...
...Crimson managed its first sustained drive of an afternoon that would have been better spent in bed by moving from its eight to Cornell's 36. But the multiflex offense tends to wilt in the rain and the drive came to a slippery conclusion...
...Restic must have done a rain dance during halftime, or at least politely suggested to his team that it had better ignore the showers or else, because the Crimson took the kickoff and moved to the Big Red 8, before Mike Lynch kicked a real wobbly duck of a field goal, 25 yards to be exact, and Harvard...