Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting was often bitter-end, even by modern standards: American volunteer suicide squads were killed or wounded almost to a man in breaching the British defenses at Stony Point; Americans, Indians and British troops, their flintlocks useless from rain, milled in wild combat with knife, musket butt and tomahawk at Oriskany in the New York wilderness. Cowpens, Brandywine, Germantown-all were bloody. The revolution pitted strange adversaries. At Eutaw Springs, the American force was heavily loaded with British deserters, the British force with American deserters. Kilted Scottish-American settlers fought for the king with broadswords at Moore's Creek...
...even greater than the searing droughts of 1886 and 1934-36. In the whole area, rainfall has been subnormal for four years. Last year Texas had less than 30% of normal rainfall. This year, in the Texas Panhandle, it has been less than 25% of normal. There was little rain in Texas during June, and temperatures exceeded 100 almost every...
...southwestern plains of the U.S., weather as hot and dry as a kitchen stove lid is an accepted part of life. West Texans like to say that when the great deluge flooded the world and Noah took to the ark, West Texas had half an inch of rain. But last week the Southwest was not in a joking mood. In Texas and parts of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado, dry weather had turned to drought and drought was turning to disaster...
...working on his program, which would be of some temporary help in the drought area. At Benson's recommendation. President Eisenhower allocated $8.000,000 in emergency funds for drought relief. But the Secretary of Agriculture and everyone else knew that no man could supply the only real solution: rain...
...Broken rain clouds hung low over Tachikawa Air Base last week as the EUR-124 Globemaster, biggest of the Air Force's transport craft, lumbered to the end of the runway. Visibility was a safe 2½ miles, and the 122 Air Force and Army passengers chatted easily as the massive, two-deck plane made a perfect takeoff...