Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Their Heads." Primary day-the first presidential primary in Minnesota since 1916-brought rain, snow and mud. A light vote was expected. But not long after the polls opened, election workers knew something strange was happening. Voters were sloshing through the weather in unexpected numbers. In St. Paul, Duluth, Austin and St. Louis Park (a Minneapolis suburb), where voting machines are used, an astonishing number of voters were going through a tedious process. They had to push aside a metal cover on a vertical write-in slot 1½ in. long, reach up (the slot...
Some cloudiness and chance of light rain; temperatures in middle 50s; moderate southwesterly winds...
Thanks to the "profoundly irresponsible" Royal Commission, even the Houses of Parliament suffered. Once again the stone came in unseasoned and without regard for the original lie of the rock. "A few decades of exposure to the climate of London and particularly to its acid-charged rain, and the whole of that vast display of Gothic revivalism began to crumble and dissolve...
...Blanket. In Santiago, Chile, Weather Forecaster Julio Bustos was being sued by the mayor of Valdivia, who charged that Bustos' prediction of rain during Valdivia's centenary celebrations had discouraged tourists, cost the city 10 million pesos...
...some more done, Jack dropped in last week at the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Open and led off in a drizzling rain by firing a scorching 66. But his rivals at the palmetto-fringed Lakewood Country Club course (par: 72) were determined not to let Jack make it four tournaments in a row: the 66 only brought him a four-way tie for low first-round honors. Then, while the others slipped up toward par, Jack stayed down in birdie country. By the last day, though firemen had to put out a small brush fire on the course, Jack was white...