Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greeted by a throng that included Vice President and Mrs. Nixon, Senator Knowland, other members of Congress and the diplomatic corps. As he stepped out of the Columbine III, the band struck up the Star-Spangled Banner, and the President stood motionless, his hat over his heart, as the rain of a summer shower spattered down on him.* Then, before a rosette of microphones, the President ignored the raindrops streaming down his face and soaking his summer suit. "After the hard week I have been through," he said, "it is very heart warming to have such a reception...
...that, with the rain pelting down on the white schoolhouse, the meeting ended. No one of the five candidates is expected to get the majority vote necessary for nomination, and Mississippi pundits last week had no clear choices as to which two will manage to get into the runoff primary. For Mississippi voters there was no clear choice...
...watchers picked out a couple of stars that resembled the Square of Pegasus. Then Karl Krienke spotted a dim celestial body which neither he nor Macfarlane could identify, even with the star charts. In the rain, two nights later, the two amateurs waited for a break in the clouds, rechecked their data. Then Macfarlane, "so excited I could hardly dial Western Union," rushed word of their new find to Harvard Observatory...
...rain-slicked turf of Philadelphia's Merion Cricket Club, Wimbledon Champion Tony Trabert whipped his Davis Cup Teammate Vic Seixas and took away the Pennsylvania State Grass Court championship, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3. Earlier, in the Pennsylvania and Eastern women's final, Wimbledon Champion Louise Brough beat New York State Champion Althea Gibson for the women's title...
...curving south facade were 27 deep-set, rectangular openings, decorated by stained glass designed by Le Corbusier. The broad church door also bore a symbolic painting by Le Corbusier, done in enamel. Capping it all was a swelling, sausage-roll roof from which extends a mighty spout to carry rain water to a concrete tank. Said Abbé Besançon, one of Ronchamp's priests: the church is "ungodly and ungainly...