Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ministry of Agriculture flatly refused to abolish the battery system. It would mean the loss of 150 million eggs a year, said the ministry, and Britain cannot afford that. "In a battery, a hen is protected from the things it dislikes most," said the official announcement. "They are: heavy rain, excessive wind, excessive cold or heat, bullying and cannibalism. Whether the bird itself has views, we do not know. But . . . too many people think of hens in human terms. They say the birds can't lie down [in the batteries]. A hen doesn't lie down, anyway...
Navarre attacked by sea, land and air in the face of immense physical odds. High winds and storm clouds scattered his parachutists, rain delayed his infantry. By nightfall the villages were surrounded. But under cover of darkness the Viet Minh had filtered through the French lines, or disappeared into swampland hideouts. The battle pointed up the basic difficulty of valorizing the war in Indo-China: the Viet Minh are everywhere and nowhere; they wage war by sabotage, terror, propaganda and guerrilla action...
...misanthropic successor Tiberius found the island's solitude so inspiring that he often invited tedious friends out to the imperial villa for the weekend, only to push them off a cliff as soon as they arrived. The only thing Capri lacked was a supply of fresh water. Rain water, collected in cisterns, had to suffice Augustus, Munthe and all Caprioti...
...face to help express the music. Her voice, which last winter often verged on a maudlin wobble, was fine-grained and pure even when she let it out in the climaxes. She ranged from such a lighthearted number as Lucky To Be Me to a torchy version of Come Rain or Come Shine to a dramatic monologue about a girl who gets picked up by the man on the next bar stool; she managed to tinge them all with the air of a woman who has lived and loved...
...rain that lashed the green Ruhr Valley, one sleek Mercedes after another swung off the highway and pulled up in the courtyard of a big white farmhouse. Well-fed, important-looking Germans hurried inside. A movie-fan would have guessed that some plot was afoot...