Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington on Monday morning hung oppressive and muggy. At 8 o'clock the rain began to fall in a dismal drizzle, slicking the streets, washing the stone and concrete faces of the capital. The raindrops beaded the row of semicircular windows off the White House south lawn and snaked down the panes. Behind the windows, seated in his red leather chair, President Eisenhower pored grimly over the news dispatches and diplomatic intelligence that told of Iraq's fall...
...that narrowly lost to Cornell last year. Through a torrential thunderstorm Russia's Trud Club crew chopped off a snappy 37 strokes to the minute that gave them an immediate three-quarter-length lead. The Huskies started at 38, flagged to 31, lost by 1½ lengths. The rain-soaked Huskies glomped off to their tent without congratulating the victors. Then the Russians trounced the Leichkardt Rowing Club of Australia in the finals by 2½ lengths. Only U.S. consolation: Harvard 150-lb. lightweights whipped all comers in their class to win the Thames Challenge...
...impossible to report on the tech- nical side of the production because rain on opening night forced the play indoors under makeshift conditions. However, the costumes seem without exception absolutely right...
...Rain threatened to dampen "Woody's" farewell performance with the Harvard Glee Club at Tanglewood's Berkshire Music Festival last Sunday afternoon...
...villagers of Uttar Pradesh put slices of onion beneath their turbans and hung garlic on their fans in the belief it would ward off sunstroke. In Madras black pepper was rubbed on the head of the elephant god to create "such a burning sensation that he will gush forth rain." The prayers were answered last week in some parts of India with the arrival of the welcome monsoon, though not in the hard-hit northern tier states. Rain fell so hard in Bombay that five people drowned in a single day in the flooded streets...