Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the hammering of the rain on the tin roof of a tobacco shed, the burly, shaggy-browed six-footer boomed into a microphone: "I know that the African National Congress is saying. 'Freedom at any price!' This is an emotional appeal to a not-so-advanced people. I hope those who talk this way realize what would become of the ordinary black man in this country." The speaker: Sir Roy Welensky, 51, Prime Minister of Britain's Central Africa Federation, stumping for his party just before last week's national election. In the shed...
Insiders predict that the elements will not respect today's impassioned bout between the traditional rivals. It is said that clouds will overshadow the playing fields and temperatures will settle in the chilly 40's. Light rain or snow may well disturb the stolid comfort of the cheering masses...
...rabble-rousing leaders. As uprooted Dahomeyans and Togolanders, many of whom have lived on the Ivory Coast for years, huddled in makeshift shelters, Premier Auguste Denise lamented "the inhuman, painful spectacle of men, women and babies piled one on the other in the sun and the rain, running daily the risk of epidemics...
...Then you don't have inspection? I thought you did. At least, they do for autos. And it's really not a bad bicycle. I never ride in the snow and only rarely in the rain...
...Bomb Plan. During the war Behlen noticed that rubber conveyor rollers for mechanical corn huskers were unavailable. He devised a substitute from old auto tires-and in 1944 netted $40,000. The next year Nebraska was soaked by rain, and farmers needed dryers for their piled corn. Behlen designed long pipes that could be thrust into the corn, hooked up hot-air fans to blow through them. Farmers snapped up the simple dryer,* and such other Behlen inventions as auxiliary gears to make old tractors go faster...