Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Dr. Yasuo Miyake, of the Japanese government's Meteorological Research Organization in Tokyo, the detection measures four phenomena: 1) disturbances of atmospheric pressure, 2) variations of tide level (if the explosion is oceanic), 3) variations in atmospheric electricity, 4) radioactivity in rain...
...mild winter brought occasional sunshine and frequent rain last year, making the outdoor rink unplayable for almost a quarter of the practice session; but the Department of Athletics lost more than practice time--the costs for refreezing the playing surface were found to be far greater than the simple maintenance of a frozen surface...
Many French officers had high praise for these tough peasant-soldiers who could fight in waist-deep water, buffeted by wind and rain, living on no more than a slim rice ration and an occasional frog caught in the paddyfields. They moved stealthily in and out of the villages, spotting Viet Minh spies, harassing the enemy by night and playing the part of noncombatant peasants by day. In one sector the sister of a priest led a group of women in dark brown cotton uniforms, their large pockets always containing a few hand grenades...
...years later the rest of the refectory was rebuilt, and the sandbags removed. But the mural was obscured by a newly formed crust of white mold, brought on by long contact with the rain-dampened sandbags. A fingertip touch would dent the pasty surface, and there seemed no way of removing the mold without flaking off the picture as well. The world had seen the last, apparently, of the Last Supper...
...started to climb Mt. Fox but were forced to turn back because of bad weather--a mixture of snow, rain and fog," Gerhard said yesterday. "At 5:30 p.m. we were descending a gully of dirt and rocks when Jim yelled a warning and I looked up and saw hundreds of rocks falling down the gully, moving at a very high speed...