Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rainmaking got a bad setback more than a year ago when the Air Force and the Weather Bureau spewed quantities of dry ice into juicy Ohio clouds and produced hardly any rain (TIME, Dec. 6, 1948). But Nobel Prizewinner Irving Langmuir, leading backer of scientific rainmaking, is notably hard to discourage. Last week he told a Manhattan meeting of the American Meteorological Society and the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences about more successful experiments in New Mexico...
...father used to tell me the Lampoon building is on wet ground and that it sinks a few inches each spring," she said. Indeed, every time there is a rain, a massive puddle forms around the apex of the Poon, cutting it off from the outside world...
...Navy sweated on, under a rain of callous suggestions from the Army and Air Force. Old hands wondered aloud how the Missouri had strayed nearly half a mile from the channel, and a board of inquiry was named to find out. Experts, reporters, and the merely curious pointed and peered at her exposed underbody. At week's end the Navy gave up, announced dejectedly that they would try again at the next spring tide in February. Every night, for all to see, two red lights hung at the Missouri's yardarm. They indicated that the ship was aground...
Maine--Today fair with below freezing temperatures and gentle northwest winds. Outlook tomorrow snow likely changing to some rain over the extreme south portion...
Berkshires--Today fair. Temperatures a little below freezing. Outlook tomorrow some snow changing to rain and warmer...