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Word: rains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Once, I remember, I was talking to a very large crowd in front of the big department store in Red Square. Suddenly it began to rain. I could see the crowd wanted me to keep talking. Two Red Army soldiers standing in the crowd were the only ones with raincoats. Someone said something to one of them, and he took off his raincoat and gave it to me. People asked if I would mind talking in the rain...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Grad Addressed Crowds in Red Square | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...summer vacation hiking around England, Scotland and Wales on a tight budget with a rucksack on her back, stopping at 70?-a-night youth hostels that "had just cold water and a wooden tub, and some had just one faucet, so that we had to wait outside in the rain for our turn to get washed." Gushed Sandra: "It was great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 23, 1957 | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...reason why he failed was because ..." And they sanction the redundant "consensus of opinion" on the ground that "it is used so often." On the other hand, they rigorously rule out scores of cliches on the ground of overuse. Example: "Know enough to come in out of the rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ED UCATI O N: How Educated People Speak | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...Hatful of Rain. Horror in a humdrum living room; with the wifely love of Eva Marie Saint pitted against the dope addiction of Don Murray (TiME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 16, 1957 | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...Hatful of Rain. Horror in a humdrum living room; with the wifely love of Eva Marie Saint pitted against the dope addiction of Don Murray (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 9, 1957 | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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