Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three days later, the Soviet foreign ministry confirmed the AEC announcement and revealed a little more. The bomb, said the foreign ministry, was exploded at great height to minimize the radioactive fallout (radioactive rain fell on Japan last week), and was the occasion for research in civil defense as well as in the development of atomic energy...
...classroom at one time or another, are a bad argument for her teaching methods. Their jaws drop with astonishment whenever she uses a word of more than two syllables (which she does with lamentable frequency) and, collectively, they have scarcely enough sense to come in out of the rain unless teacher tells them...
After that came a summer of stock in Bridgton, Me., and before the summer was over, she also read her lines before a justice of the peace with Jay Julien, a young lawyer-producer (his latest play: A Hatful of Rain...
...next Saturday a Cornell squad that had lost to Colgate the week before was coming to Cambridge, and the Crimson was favored. It was thought that the Harvard line could stop some speedy Big Red backs. But in the rain and muck of Soldiers Field Bill DeGraaf and Dick Jackson ran wild over the varsity...
Years later, when most have forgotten who won and by how much, 56,000 people will remember the day they braved the snow and bitter cold to watch a Harvard-Yale game in the Bowl. The snow made a fitting sequal to the rain of the Princeton contest and marked this fall as the season of the miserable Big 3 games...