Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the second meeting, a thunderstorm broke out and some of Billy's listeners raised umbrellas as rain began leaking through the roof. "I was told today that you needed rain," said Billy without batting an eye. "I am happy it is raining."_Billy remained happy throughout his stay in Paris. Although he did not draw a single capacity audience, the turnout was greater than he had expected. On his last night (he later left for a brief rest in Zurich before starting a tour of other European countries), he drew a crowd of 11,000. "We have fallen...
Meanwhile, the Grand Prix ground on. Around 1 a.m. on orders from Stuttgart, Mercedes pulled out of the race. After a while, rain pelted down. The race and the crowd's vigil continued. But when Mike Hawthorn's Jaguar ripped past the finish line to win the 1955 Le Mans next afternoon, few people even bothered to cheer...
Perfect administration insured the successful assault on Essex, Magnolia Beach, and the Manchester Yacht Club. The fleet of buses and its motorcycle escort fled from Cambridge shortly after 9 a.m., carrying picnickers not mobilized in cars. All day, low murky clouds and cool breezes threatened to bring rain, but fortunately the spirits remained high and not dampened...
...event of rain, the Class Day Exercises will be shifted to Sanders Theatre...
...ships." But Hoffman also lays down scores of absurdities which parallel nothing but his own wishful thinking, e.g., "Here is my dagger" (Marlowe); "There is my dagger" (Shakespeare). Nor does it ever occur to him that certain elemental ideas have struck almost every poet who ever lived, e.g., that rain may be described as Heaven's weeping, that fast-beating hearts are like hammer blows, that lovers long before the Elizabethan Age had decided that even the sunniest day was a pain in the neck compared with a long, dark night...