Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...businessman, he had his new program of Government loan insurance and other aids to small business. For the farmer and the consumer there was the Brannan Plan. In Nebraska, where he had once faced 8,000 empty seats in an Omaha auditorium, 30,000 people stood through a pouring rain in a public square at Lincoln. Though his own congressional leaders had refused any part of it and most organized agriculture opposed it, Politician Truman still seemed convinced that the Brannan formula would catch...
Morton and his men were fighting a dogged, seldom dramatic battle of containment, with wet snow and rain adding to their difficulties. At suburban East Kildonan a 25-foot dike section burst, swamping 150 homes in a boiling wall of water ten feet high. But in most places the dikes-made of sodden burlap sandbags-were holding...
...watches. A Hopalong Cassidy comic strip runs in 75 daily and 42 Sunday newspapers; every week a network of 500 Mutual radio stations broadcasts the General Foods-sponsored Hopalong Cassidy show (Sun. 4 p.m. E.D.T.). And Composer Nacio Herb Brown (You Are My Lucky Star, Singin' in the Rain) has signed up for the exclusive privilege of writing songs about Hoppy...
Edward VIII had hardly been proclaimed King (with Wallis at his side at St. James's Palace as heralds boomed out the tidings) before he realized that "the King business" had its drawbacks. Item: he could not even take a walk in the rain because it brought criticism from those who thought a king should not get his feet wet. There were more important drawbacks. He had his first foreboding interviews about Mrs. Simpson with the Archbishop of Canterbury and with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Windsor lifts the curtain on the intrigue-packed scenes when Baldwin tells Edward that...
...judge by Hess's analysis, Martian weather is pretty dull. If an earthling on Mars were able to breathe its atmosphere (containing little oxygen), he would see few clouds the year round. The wind might push him about a bit, but he would not have to worry about rain or snow. His worst problem would be the more extreme contrast between winter and summer. The Martian year (almost twice as long as the earthly year) allows Mars more time to heat up in summer, cool off in winter...