Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...together. Assimilation has had its failures. The conservative British Medical Association opposes the registration of European doctors. The Trades and Labor Council, jealous custodian of half a century of labor gains, was outraged when hard-working immigrants refused to take "morning tea breaks" and volunteered to work in the rain. The Communists circularized dockworkers: "Most immigrant Bails are fascists opposed to unionism." Crime increased with the rising population, and Australians were disturbed by the addition of a new weapon to the Australian criminal's arsenal: the knife. Biggest setback has been the reluctance of Australian girls to marry immigrants...
That night, after telephoning trusted army comrades, Lott touched off what Brazilians labeled "the anti-golpe." In the small dark hours, troops in battle kit swarmed into rain-soaked Rio. By morning the city was in Lett's hands. Segments of the navy and air force first declared for Luz, but backed down the next day without firing a shot. Luz himself fled aboard a navy cruiser. The Chamber of Deputies declared Luz "unable to serve" (on the technical ground that he was at sea), duly named as his successor Senate President Nereu Ramos, next in line according...
...Hatful of Rain (by Michael V. Gazzo) concerns a drug addict. Young Johnny Pope picked up the habit while a hospitalized war veteran, shook it off, and now-with his wife expecting a child -is on the needle again. Tormented by his cravings, he is also tormented by the brutal, scrounging pushers who can supply the drugs. His well-meaning brother knows of his vice and has given him money for it; his unhappy wife does not know and can only blame some unknown woman for his neglect and his absences from home. Out of such a situation emerges...
Harrowingly effective at times, A Hatful of Rain yet proves an unsatisfying whole. For one thing, it has too many facets. Besides Johnny's relation to himself and his wife, there is a complicated, rather confusing relationship with his father and brother. There is the moral question of his brother's supplying Johnny with money, the personal question of his brother's being in love with Johnny's wife. Along with the problem of taking drugs, there is the problem of getting them. In other hands, this complex of elements might strengthen and deepen the story...
...could not keep away the inevitable wet. Today's variety was not equal to the torrents which saturated the Eli rooters during the Cornell game, and the Crimson fans during the Columbia and Princeton games, but it was of the most annoying variety--a soft mixture of snow and rain, finally changing to snow at game time...