Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explain away the half-empty Konzerthaus, the Communists blamed fog, rain and Vienna's lack of taxis, but nothing could conceal the hollowness of the Communist claims to have a peace program, not even the tirade of abuse directed at America. Specimen (by North Korean delegate Madame Kang Yang Sun): U.S. soldiers in Korea knifed out the eyes of Korean children and forced their mothers to eat them, cut open the body of a pregnant woman and extracted the embryo and sliced it before the eyes of the dying mother...
...long, the clouds had billowed above Johannesburg; in the late afternoon lightning split a sky that was the color of an overripe plum, and the city's jagged skyline vanished behind a curtain of steel-bright rain. Eighteen miles away, a tornado struck the mile-square shantytown of Albertynsville, where 5,000 Negroes and half-castes lived in mud huts. For an instant, the growling air was filled with flying tin roofs; then the pelting rains crumbled Albertynsville's mud huts into a slough of grey ooze that flowed like lava, choked with sticks of furniture, rusty pots...
While he was still a boy, Kinsey wrote his first published paper, based on his observation of what various birds did in the rain. Some birds, he noted, sang, some shut up, some flew for shelter, some danced in the sky. This early ornithology foreshadowed the two main drives of his life-love of nature and passion for explicit details...
...driving rain last week, block-long crowds lined up four-deep along Manhattan's Madison Avenue for the opening of a new bank. "Look at them," said Manhattan Savings Bank's President Willard Denton. "Nothing like this has ever happened in banking before!" The reason was that Denton, in moving the headquarters of his medium-sized bank from lower Manhattan to midtown, had made an effort "to get the cold atmosphere out of the banking business...
Despite yesterday's rain storms, this fall has been unusually dry for the area. Brooks noted that the past three months have seen 42 per cent less precipitation than average...