Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went home, President Eisenhower passed the word that this week he will start on his delayed post-adjournment vacation in Newport, R.I., where the Navy base people and townsfolk have proudly dressed ship for his arrival. Length of his stay will depend on the weather; if September brings Newport rain and fog, or hurricane weather, the President will pack up for warm, balmy Gettysburg in short order. Moreover, the Middle East situation weighed heavily on the President last week; if it deteriorates, he wants to be in Washington or close by. At week's end, just in time...
...defeat in World War I. Germany's first real experiment with democracy was the Weimar Republic of the 1920s. But despite the efforts of men of vision like Friedrich Ebert and Gustav Stresemann. German democracy was splintered from the start by regionalism, factionalism, and, above all, by a rain-forest proliferation of political parties. Then came Hitler...
Like prideful vintners everywhere, the winegrowers along the banks of West Germany's Rhine and Moselle Rivers tend their vineyards with loving care and pray fervently that the inexplicable magic of sun, rain and vines will produce a wine to remember. Last week, as they prepared for this year's vintage festivals, a dark pall hung over the vintners. The reason: an intruder wine that everyone will remember for a long, long time. Without loving care, with only cheap grapes and a different sort of magic, one of their number had produced something that millions of Germans mistook...
Stop the Music! In Gallup, N. Mex., the Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial Association, after several weeks of rainy weather, sent out a plea to Pueblo Indians to cancel plans for some of their rain dances...
...Gentle Rain. In Portland, Ore., a woman in desperate need of an apartment submitted a want ad to the Oregonian, saying she would "get rid of pet chinchillas, toy poodle, Siamese cat, parakeet and goldfish, but would like to keep 9-year...