Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week hopes of renewed glory were rising across the land. In Nottingham, playing the first of five test matches with the fearsome Australians. England's team had achieved a draw when rain halted play. But weather notwithstanding, Britons began to see England as the Aussies' equal for the first time in 20 years. For one thing, Australia is now without its famed batsman, the retired Sir Don Bradman. And against Australia's great Bowler Ray Lindwall, who can take his 20-yd. running start and fling the ball at close to 90 m.p.h.. England could...
...Rain fell last week on east Texas and scattered sections of west Texas. The rain, plus announcement of an $8,000,000 federal-aid program, brightened the spirits of drought-stricken Texas ranchers. The rush to ship cattle to the stockyards tapered off, and beef rose $1 to $4 per 100 lbs. But the drought was far from over. And when and if it does end, Texas' water problems will be far from solved...
Northward were the Himalayan pastures, where the gentle Sherpa tribesmen live. The trail crossed giant mountains, crowding the icy torrent of the Dudh Kosi and soaring on the other side to 20,000 ft. Sometimes by day there were rain and sleet; sometimes there were hornets that can drive a man mad. And so, on March 25, they came to Namche Bazar, the chief of the Sherpa towns...
...four days and four nights, twelve inches of rain had fallen, with a recorded peak of 21 inches at Hita, Oita Prefecture. The toll: 457 known dead, 1,114 missing, 901 injured; some 800,000 homeless; 4,000 homes destroyed or washed away, 300,000 homes damaged or flooded, 350,000 acres of rich paddy and upland fields ruined and gone. The cost: $50 million to $100 million. For Kyushu, where it rains twice as much as it does elsewhere in Japan, it was the worst flood catastrophe in 61 years...
Japanese policemen and civilians, U.S. servicemen in helicopters worked tired-eyed through the blinding rain, to rescue the living and remove the dead. The Japanese who escaped huddled cowed in their temples, in school and farm houses on the high ground, or numbly around radios that said: ". . . At least two' more days of rain...