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Word: rains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane flight over an angry anvil of cloud, sat back casually as his eye ran across the instrument panel. Altitude: 47,000 feet. True air speed: 500 knots. It was a crisp, sunlit flight, and the only problem in sight was to bore down through the overcast to the rain-browned runways of the Marine Auxiliary Air Station at Beaufort, S.C., only minutes away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Nightmare Fall | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Standing erect, with hands stretched out toward his admirers, Nixon was hit repeatedly by bouquet after bouquet. So heavy was the rain of flowers that four times the ZIS had to be swept clean of them to leave room for its occupants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Bravo, Americans! | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...system enables American to load or unload a 112-passenger Boeing 707, rain or shine, in three to five minutes. The line intends to install the jet boarding system in other U.S. cities before year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Jet-Age Boarding | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...Driving his own Porsche sports car in a preliminary to the German Grand Prix, France's Jean Behra, screeched into a banked turn at no m.p.h., lost control on the rain-slick track, was killed when his car spun over the embankment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fast Out of the Turns | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...Driving his own Porsche sports car in a preliminary to the German Grand Prix, France's Jean Behra, screeched into a banked turn at no m.p.h., lost control on the rain-slick track, was killed when his car spun over the embankment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Scoreboard | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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