Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...listener demand and married Chichi to Stephen Hamilton, a crippled sweetheart. Later on they realized their mistake: "It didn't fit in with a young girl who was footloose & fancy-free. So we had their baby die of pneumonia after Stephen had taken him out in the rain, and then killed him off with a heart attack. For two weeks afterward we kept Chichi off the air in the interests of good taste, and that was that. He was never mentioned again...
...improved sealed-beam headlight for autos which will be available within two years. The new light, approved by a subcommittee of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, gives wider vision down the righthand side of the road, has greater overall range, cuts down on flareback in fog and rain, thus virtually eliminates the need for separate fog lights...
...with a secret formula they called "goop." According to the fruit farmers who have hired the flyers, the seeding causes rainfall and prevents crop-ruining hail. But many of the valley's hay and cattle ranchers feel that the flyers are nothing but cloudbusters, robbing dryland farmers of rain...
...expenses, they replaced the iodide with goop which seemed to work just as well. One man, flying high (up to 35,000 ft.) over the tops of thunderheads, seeds them with dry goop. Below the clouds, the other plane sprays a solution of superheated goop. Some ten minutes later, rain usually falls. Hail, so they claim, has no chance to form...
...book. That was the beginning of his passionate curiosity about nature. Soon he was immersed in a research project: in shower and thunderstorm he pulled on his raincoat and dashed out to see what the birds were doing. Kinsey's first published work, What Birds Do in the Rain, appeared in a nature journal when he was still in grade school...