Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Josephy spent two days in Omaha. While watching sandbags being piled on the levees just one step ahead of the rising river, he was pressed into service in a chain of men passing the heavy bags from hand to hand. Working in the mud and rain to help ward off the greatest Missouri River flood on record, Josephy soon found out just how devastating an enemy the river could...
...City, Kans., and the DC-6 arrived over Kansas City in the midst of a heavy rainstorm. For 75 minutes the plane circled. Then it made one hair-raising pass at the field and pulled up again. The final landing was a thriller. The pilot came down in thick rain through pitch blackness, hit the runway with engines roaring and bounced 50 feet into the air before settling back. It was 3 .a.m. before Ike got to bed in Kansas City's Town House...
...Indians who settled at Sheguindah, says Digger Lee, probably stayed for some 2,000 years; then, about 5,000 years ago, they pushed southeastward across Ontario. Rain and snow kept topsoil from forming on the sloping camp site, and many discarded artifacts lay on the ground last summer just as they had for 50 centuries. Archaeologist Lee gathered up every trace of man-chipped stone he could find before he went quietly away. This summer he returned with a group of students to dig deeper...
Barred spectators, shivering in a cold rain, tried to follow events with binoculars from distant trees, but caught only glimpses of the sniffly athletes as they jounced and bounced through shoeless track and field contests. The peekers noted that even bathing caps were ruled out of the 50-yd. breaststroke event. But until President Fankhauser saw fit to announce the results, no treetop spectator could know who had won what. Not even programs would help, because it was difficult to tell one unnumbered performer from another...
...heights of the Continental Divide the first snow is falling. Soon the snow packs will form, and a thousand rivulets, streaming down to the outstretched finger rivers of the Missouri, will freeze over. Across the lonely badlands and treeless plains, the rain is mild and gentle, and the Big Muddy and its tributaries are snug in their beds. In Iowa and Nebraska, in Montana and the Dakotas, all but the latest crops are in. For the farmers and ranchers of the Missouri Valley, one year of risk and struggle is ending, another will soon begin...