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Word: rains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equivalent to major league baseball) an average score would be, say, 580 to 517. In order to have time to do all this lavish scoring, the teams are obliged to play three-day matches, six hours a day (not counting the tea interval and pauses for the inevitable English rain showers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cricket: An Unspeakably Traditional Sport | 4/28/1951 | See Source »

...freshman match at Deerfield Academy was postponed because of rain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Raps BU Tennis Team, 9-0 | 4/26/1951 | See Source »

...muddy foxhole in central Korea crouched battlewise Colonel William Harris, commander of the 7th Cavalry Regiment. The colonel was unshaven and bone tired; his eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep. A sodden G.I. blanket around his shoulders inadequately shielded him from the pouring rain. "This," said the colonel, "is the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: On the Camel's Head | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

Another remarked, "I always see raincoats substituting for spring and covering goodness knows what. And sneakers in the rain! Why can't those girls take care of themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Cabbies Call 'Cliffedwellers 'Odd in Dress, Bike Riding, Tipping | 4/20/1951 | See Source »

...about a French district attorney whose wife caries on a forty-eight hour affair with a pianist she has met on a train. There is some nuzzling in the rain, a great deal of obtrusive, Rachmaninofflike music, and the D. A. gets his wife back...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/17/1951 | See Source »

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