Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...player went down, a rival would usually rush to help him up. Then the two would warmly shake hands before re-entering the game. Even the British referee got in on the love feast. When he blew his whistle for a time out, players would scamper to him, rain compliments on him for his eminent fairness, surpassing judgment and keen eyesight...
...Whispering Willie" was right as rain. He had never been to college, but he had kept the books of a chicken-feed company and his neighbors will swear that he never lost $3.50, let alone $350 million. When he got Agriculture's books, $366 million were missing. Subsequent accounting has reduced the discrepancy to a mere $81 million. Williams, in his small-town way, still considers that a lot of money...
...days after Stalin's article appeared, the Party Congress opened, bringing 2,000 comrades in chauffeured limousines. As the cold rain glistened on the yellow facade of the great palace of the Kremlin, the delegates gave the dictator one of the greatest ovations of his life. Ideologically, the 72-year-old dictator had completely overshadowed everyone at the meeting and set its tone...
Archeologist Maiuri's men cleared away the rest of the gravel. There, astonishingly preserved, was a 7-ft. mural of Venus reclining on a sea shell, attended by cupids. Unlike most Pompeian paintings, which have been dimmed and reddened by ash, rain and time, the mural had kept most of its original luster: deep sky-blues, rosy flesh tints, bright gold for the ornaments, rich brown for Venus' hair...
Yesterday's Dudley-Leverett soccer game was postponed indefinitely because of rain. Eliot will face Lowell in soccer this afternoon...