Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself. As a sample, he had a special $32,000 hardwood dance floor installed in the Alabama Cattle Coliseum for his inaugural ball. Lazily, he waved to the crowd, called out his campaign catch phrase: "Hitch up them mules, boy, it ain't a goin' to rain." Speaking at the stately white capitol, he pawed absently at his cutaway, as though feeling for pockets. When the crowd roared, he drawled: "I forgot it was one of those longtail jobs. Just every four years is all I'm used to wearing it." South Carolina. With no parade, ball...
...assault, the Reds began shelling the tiny island from two destroyers, four gunboats and a swarm of patrol boats. At noon 60 Red planes-Russian-built light bombers and fighter-bombers, with MIG jets for top cover-began plastering the Nationalists with 500-lb. bombs. Under this rain of fire, the garrison clung to its burrows; while they were holed up, the invaders came ashore from a swarm of armored, motorized junks...
...elastic garters on them, only to find that the toads could easily shake them off. Then they tried painting the toads, but no paint would stay. They even tried sewing little numbered "running shorts" on them, soon discovered that clothing a wriggling toad in the dark, often in heavy rain and cold weather, is just about impossible. Finally, "with some reluctance." they hit upon the idea of cutting...
Muttered Peter uneasily: "We have no money at all." Japan's Emperor Hirohito greeted the New Year with his traditional annual poem, which as usual had the lilt wrung out of it in translation. The royal quat rain: "Stout are the hearts/Of men who toil/At their honest calling/Enduring heat and cold." Cinemactress Ava Gardner, a restless siren who has spent the past month roving the world and attending national premieres of her latest movie, The Barefoot Contessa, popped up in Stockholm. She wore shoes to a party in her honor, pursed her moist lips prettily to get a kiss...
...Rose Bowl stadium at Pasadena is in the Arroyo Seco, which means dry gulch. But last week the field was anything but that; it was a sea of mud. Rain fell throughout the game. TV Announcer Mel Allen, who seemed to have been briefed by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, spoke first of an "overcast," then of a "mist," and finally, quite frankly of rain ("How about that...