Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles never used to get excited about the World Series. This year sales of TV sets boomed, and traffic was tied up. Church advertising for Sunday morning was up 20% in an effort to meet the competition. When Sunday's game was called off on account of rain, one preacher said: "I would call...
...various people and berated them for their lack of faith. Deprived of converts, he demanded fifty dollar checks and threatened those who would not give with "sleepless nights." Finally he lost his temper and shouted, "all right, you don't have to stay, go on out" It was pouring rain outside, but the crowd started to file...
Several years ago, Leo salvaged a game against a second-division club by relieving with his ace on the eve of a traditionally "crucial" Dodger-Cardinal series. To bemused sports writers he explained: "I play today's game today. Who knows? It could rain tomorrow...
...course the Yankees had a little luck--such as the day of rain that enabled Casey Stengel to use only his top three starters. But this is one out of Durocher's book...
Despite the skeptical grumblings of the U.S. Weather Bureau, Under Secretary Searles is a cautious believer in the possibilities of man-made rain. In 1948, when he was president of the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association in Arizona, he used cloud-seeding, then almost untested, to increase the rainfall on the watershed above Roosevelt Dam. He believes the experiments produced 12,000 extra acre-feet of water, a welcome addition in drought-plagued Arizona...