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Word: rains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening game the heavy-hitting Giants pickled his slider, beat him 9-2. He sat out the second game (won by Yomiuri 7-3), came back after two days of rest to lose a 1-0 heartbreaker, even though he allowed only three hits and walked nobody. The rain forced a day's postponement, and Inao's luck changed. He beat the Giants 6-4. Next day he relieved in the fourth inning, won his own game 4-3 with a tenth-inning homer. Inao got a two-day break as the teams switched cities, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sal's Dream | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Several minutes later, Boulris punted out of bounds on the Penn five, with only six minutes remaining. The Quakers remained bottled up in their own territory for the rest of the game, as the Crimson defense, playing very well despite the torrential rain, which began falling late in the third period, kept Penn's fast-running backs completely in check...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Varsity Defeated Quakers Last Fall | 11/1/1958 | See Source »

...claims that her spelling is so phonetic that when she has a cold she writes Bs for Ms. Her father, the Eighth Duke, seems to have been a dull dog. But this was England of two generations ago, and when a duke spoke, people listened. DUKE PRAYS FOR RAIN, ran a headline. After a suitable interval, there was another headline: DUKE'S PRAYERS ANSWERED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heartbreak House | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...cold morning in Moscow, 38 years ago today, a mixture of snow and rain soaking the mourners, John Reed's coffin was laid to rest next to the Kremlin Wall--alongside those who had given their lives for the Bolshevik Revolution...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman g, | Title: John Reed: The Eternal Cheerleader | 10/24/1958 | See Source »

...thing, the radiant beauty of the picture continually lifts the spirit. With a grace reminiscent of the old Rajput painters, Moviemaker Ray arranges his visions of the natural world-the water flies that flicker on a pond, the lily pads that flap in a sudden gale, the rain that batters at a young girl's face-in frame after frame of temperate loveliness. Moreover, the family somehow transcends its tragedy by the very energy and fullness with which the tragedy is lived. The director has a sense of life far larger than the merely tragic. Moreover, he has humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Oct. 20, 1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

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