Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year's worst duster began to blow. Winds up to 70 m.p.h. whipped across 120,000 square miles of the Southwest dust bowl, and the earth boiled into black clouds 20,000 feet high in the sky. The dust was so thick that dawn came invisibly; when rain began to fall, tiny mud balls pelted the town of Guymon, Okla. Schools closed, stores shut down, and thousands of farm families listened tensely at their radios as their lands and livelihoods blew away...
...General, and as the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. He was the lawyer for Big Steel and for labor unions as well. He argued more cases before the U.S. Supreme Court than any other man in history. Honors fell on him like the summer rain: honorary degrees by the dozen, the presidency of the American Bar Association-finally, the votes of 8,385,586 Americans for President of the United States. Yet during most of his long and distinguished career, few of his fellow citizens knew John William Davis well...
...California coast. From 700 to 1,100 years ago, it was colder than now. Twenty-five hundred years ago and 4,000 years ago, it was unusually warm. Today that part of Lower California is about as dry as possible; Dr. Hubbs thinks that the region probably got more rain during both its warm and its cold spells. Thus the land may well have been able to support the large Indian population reported, to be living there by the Spaniards during the warm period 300 years...
...only predict a month ahead," he said, "and for that time anyway it's going to be below normal (43 degrees) with plenty of rain...
...whole, Dr. Kuiper concluded, the meteorology of waterless Venus must be rather simple. There are no ocean basins to complicate the circulation of the dusty carbon-dioxide winds. The yellow dust merely drifts along; it does not condense unpredictably and fall as capricious rain to confound meteorologists...