Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face of this show of force-and dampened by driving rain-the Reds' day of "National Resistance" collapsed. There were minor riots in most West German cities, but all were quickly dispersed. At Munich, 300 Red agitators tangled with five policemen at the city's famed October festival at which 50,000 Germans had gathered to drink beer. Promptly, 200 German riot squadsmen rushed to the scene, arrested seven Communists-and everyone went back to his beer. That was the pattern in most of Western Germany. Police tirelessly quenched "peace bonfires," confiscated leaflets and arrested another...
...family's college. His job with the Marines was the interrogation of Communist prisoners. From them Hedge soon learned that a large unit of North Korean troops was using the college as headquarters. The Marine commander gave the obvious and necessary orders. As Hedge watched, a rain of shells poured down on Chosen Christian University, which three generations of Underwoods had helped to build. Refugees from the city brought back a tale of terrible destruction. U.S. observers rushed up to forward observation posts to check on the damage done. Hedge Underwood for once lingered behind...
That night a soaking, life-giving rain came to the farms of Clarissa, Bertha and Eagle Bend...
Local weather experts denied that the smoke was an after-effect or rain-making experiments conducted by University meteorologist Wallace E. Howell '36, as some of the Cambridge populace apparently thought...
...York rain problem under control...