Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast majority of citizens, however, came to the polls with the air of people who needed no urging or reminding. The weather was fine almost everywhere, but most of the electorate acted as though it would have braved the rain, snow or a plague of grasshoppers. Mrs. Virginia Borrison of Tarentum, Pa. went to the polls six hours after giving birth to a baby; an unidentified woman in Miami was informed that her "I Like Ike" skirt constituted electioneering, took it off, stood calmly by in her slip until it was her turn to vote...
...planes and artillery gave the hill mass a thorough working over, but failed to dislodge the dug-in Reds. The ROKs counterattacked in a rain, without air support; they slipped and floundered on the greasy slopes, and were pinned down just short of the top. Angrily they counterattacked again, supported by a tremendous U.N. artillery shoot. They were met by withering small-arms fire and showers of grenades, and the Red artillery caught them in the open. "Human flesh could stand no more." wrote A.P. Correspondent John Randolph. "The little green-clad figures leaped and ran again, but this time...
...cold rain was falling. On the west bank of the Black River, the French were loading an ambulance with wounded. Into the top shelf went a Frenchman with face wounds; into the middle shelf, a Vietnamese whose left foot had been blown off by a mine. Around his head lay grimy salvage from his pockets: a wallet, a watch, a rosary, bits of candy. Into the bottom shelf went a Moslem with a shattered leg, his bared, shaven head showing the tuft of hair by which Allah would raise him to heaven after death. The guy ropes of the medical...
...modern world has never seen more than a faded hint of the magnificent frescoes executed by Raphael for the Vatican Palace's second-floor loggia. For three centuries after they were painted, the gallery's 13 bays had no windows; wind and rain tore at the pictures. Man was even more cruel: the frescoes were mutilated during the sack of Rome in 1527, later by Napoleon's troops in 1798; since then they have been botched by well-meaning restorers...
...Lord Jeffs defeated the Crimson 2 to 0 in the rain last season at Amherst, but this year the team is not as strong. Dartmouth beat them 3 to 1; the University of Massachusetts and Wesleyan tied the Purple. Tufts lost, 4 to 2, and M.I.T., 5 to 2. On these comparative scores, Amherst holds only a slight edge over the Crimson...