Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech of the season at the Wisconsin State Democratic Convention in Green Bay. He seemed uncomfortably restrained, perhaps because he wanted to abstain from outright campaigning until his formal announcement next month. He did no glad-handing and he drew no cheers from the small crowd waiting in the rain at Green Bay. At the Northland Hotel he stayed close to his room, did not visit the Stevenson-for-President offices on the floor above...
...stories are better known or more poorly documented than that of the death of Adolf Hitler. Popular imagination the world over has been quick to seize on the macabre details of those last days in the bunker in flaming Berlin, where a mad genius cringed in the rain of Allied bombs and felt the walls of his terrible world closing in upon him. The suicide of his scheming henchman Goebbels, the defection of those who fattened on the blood he had spilled, the last-minute marriage with his blowzy mistress Eva Braun, the suicide pact they made together...
...Athens, lanky, egg-bald Conductor Mitropoulos (some members of the Philharmonic affectionately speak of him as "E.G."-for egghead) visited the open-air Herodes Atticus Theater, told friends he was praying for rain so that he could play in an indoor theater and would not have to compete with the splendor of the floodlit Acropolis and Parthenon. He had his wish. A downpour washed the first concert indoors-not before King and Cabinet Ministers were consulted on the crisis. The switch came so late that Chief Baggage Master Vincent Jacoby tried to shoulder the orchestra's harp into...
...Little finally got his comeuppance last Saturday. It came in the driving rain amid the mud that now covers Baker Field, and it came in the form of a lesson in Jordan-style single wing football...
Only one Penn runner managed to complete the five mile, rain-spattered course within the top five finishers. Jim Smith of the Quakers came in 23 seconds after the winning Crimson captain, Don French. Smith beat the varsity's Pete Reider by about two steps. Both Ken Wilson and Ralph Perry followed within 20 seconds, before another Quaker harrier was able to make appearance...