Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite intermittent rain and a wet course, the Crimson varsity gold team took all but one match in yesterday's 6 to 1 triumph over Brown on the Wanamisett links in Providence. This marks the team's fifth consecutive victory this season...
...Rain fell most of the match, but failed to bother the golfers enough to cut into scores. Weather permitting, the Crimson will play Amherst tomorrow afternoon at The Orchards, South Hadley...
...Rain during the night had settled the dust of the Korean roads, and the buses and Russian-made ambulances lumbering down from Kaesong to Panmunjom stirred up no clouds. The first man on the U.N. side to spot them was a U.S. soldier in a front line observation post, outside the Panmunjom neutral area, who was watching through field glasses. Artillery whined and smacked in the nearby hills...
Elephants. Laos, once known as Lane Xang (the Land of a Million Elephants), is the Shangri-La of Southeast Asia. It is mistily mountainous, covered with tiger-haunted jungle and elephant-inhabited rain forest, and can only be reached by air, by traversing two very bad roads, or by sailing up the mighty Mekong. Half its people are Thais, living in the lowland valleys; the other half are primitive Khas and Meos. Huge, smiling statues of Buddha dot the landscape, and saffron-robed Buddhist monks are everywhere. Wearing scarlet jackets, gold and silver beads and bracelets and flowers in their...
Bursting with youthful selfimportance, Frut races back with the news. But the old Sages barely listen, call his story a hallucination. Either the signs are collapsed termite burrows, they tell Frut, or erosions caused by the wind and rain. Defiant, Frut begins to wonder whether the Sages are really so sage. In anger, Frut argues in public that maybe tablelanders and creekers actually are equal. Rushed into jail and to trial, Frut refuses to recant about the Thing, and is sentenced to be eaten by Sarass the snake...