Word: raining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yields in the Soviet Union undermined the power of Premier Nikita Khrushchev and contributed to his downfall. The Soviets also suffered agricultural disasters in 1972 and 1974. The drought-prone countries of sub-Saharan Africa have not yet recovered from a recent six-year period of little or no rain. Rice shortages hit Asia in 1974, while the vital monsoon rains came late to India. In 1974, after a bumper 1973 crop, excessive rain in the spring, summer drought and early frost caused a decline in the U.S. wheat crop...
...they had quit serving lunch at the Union. It looked like it was going to rain, and the Sox would probably lose again. I took my shoes off, loosened my belt, turned over in bed and set my alarm for 6. Maybe I could make it to supper...
...Orient to the Occident; his calligraphy does not even look particularly Eastern, especially since it has no literal meaning. What we now enjoy is the atmospherics: the coalescence of minutely knitted, sharply registered flicks of line rendering a pulsation of light like that of the moon through rain or neon glow over Broadway...
...After a rain-soaked second practice, Medenica found himself placed 15th out of 18 starters. A strong effort in the monsoon weather brought him in seventh after the rain-shortened ten-lap race, but he fell one position shy of garnering points towards the series championship...
...that earthy, drunken, rambunctious quality, that good-natured humor and fun-loving exuberance and that same rough, sunburned voice. He may not hop freight trains anymore--maybe he never did--but he probably still gets an urge now and then to go runnin' naked through that hill country rain...