Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alone in the Rain. Seeing his visitor off, Churchill murmured: "I will do all I can to help you." By this he meant that Britain would do its best to keep Anglophile Mendès in power. But not if it meant putting off German rearmament. Premier Mendès-France, said the British government, was left in no doubt that London still expected him to push...
...President René Coty, who was taking the waters at Bagnoles de 1'Orne. The same evening, feeling sorry for himself, Mendès took his private diesel train back to Paris, ordering the engineer to stop overnight on a railway siding. "I was all alone with the rain," the Premier said afterwards...
Only a well-worn Briticism was adequate to describe this summer's weather in Britain and a good part of Western Europe: it was "absolutely filthy." Continuous rains drenched the country lanes of England and the sidewalk cafes of Paris. In mid-August, temperatures dropped to a chill 57° on the English Channel coast and hovered near freezing on the French side. London last week had its coldest August day since 1871; Wordsworth's famed Lake Country had its 32nd consecutive day of rain. Frigid Frenchmen threw up their hands in disgust and dismissed the whole season...
Flight to the Sun. Despite the ugly weather, however, swarms of U.S. tourists braved rain, wind and hail to do their duty by their midwinter dreams. Airlines were bursting at their seatbelts; hotels were crammed to the rafters. "Any connoisseur of curled lips," reported a Rome correspondent of Variety, "can add to his collection by simply asking a room clerk if there is a vacancy." Italy had a big influx of quickie "flying tours," with most visitors asking American Express the directions to the fountain into which Gregory feck and Audrey Hepburn threw coins...
Tennant snapped: "I'm sick and tired of being followed!" A news blackout followed. Across the moat of privacy, reporters had Slim pickings: The only tidings that drifted out from the inner sanctum: a picnic had been called off because of rain-and U.S. Crooner Eddie Fisher had sent the princess a special recording of Happy Birthday...