Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second day's run covered seven towns, a mayor's luncheon and open-air speeches in a drizzling rain, but on the third day Violet was up again bright & early to drive more miles. Once during the day, she hoisted herself on an open truck while an audience of electrical workers sang "For he's a jolly good fellow" to her husband. On the Attlees drove to Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, Lancaster and across the Scottish border to Kilmarnock where heavy snow made the going rough...
...training in the Army, mapping air views of Pacific islands. His paintings did not offend the eye, they hurt it, being composed of innumerable shreds of intolerably bright conflicting colors. Unlike the more austere abstractionists, he gave his pictures titles, but such tags as He-Rain and Happily the Chiefs Regard You would be lost on gallerygoers who were not Navajo Indians...
...with Spanish moss. There is the 15,000-acre ranch on which he admires his blooded cattle and occasionally shoots deer, goats and turkeys. There is McCarthy's Colosadium (so far, only on paper), a 110,000-seat stadium for Houston with a sliding roof in case of rain. There are McCarthy's airplanes, which include a four-engined Boeing Stratoliner...
...Rain forced the postponement last Saturday of the Exeter game...
...Barring rain, snow, hail, sleet, gloom of night, or incompetence in high places, every student will soon see his grades. But the man who wants his bluebook back may find that some departments won't let him do more than peck...