Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked like salt," said one of the 82 natives, recalling the shower of radioactive ash that fell on Rongelap atoll in the Marshall Islands in March 1954. "It came down like rain, and it burned when it touched your skin." An unexpected shift of wind had carried the ash from H-bomb tests 150 miles away, off Bikini...
Newsman Caen (rhymes with rain) is probably the most loyally read local columnist in the U.S., and his formula-like San Francisco-is unique. "My job," says he, "is to make the legends come true.' While 15 other local columnists in the city's four dailies have come and gone in the past two decades, Caen's lighthearted legend-doctoring has filled six newspaper columns a week since 1938, earned him the sobriquet "Mr. San Francisco." and poured over into five profitable books about the city he calls Baghdad-by-the-Bay. The latest, Herb Caen...
...interested, the idle, or the rain-soaked are invited to an introductory meeting Wednesday, July 10, at 7:30 p.m., where the summer editors will dispense words and liquification, both gentle and severe...
...morning in late April of 1945, a military convoy snaked its way through a thin rain along the tortuous mountain road that winds from Milan along the side of Lake Como to the Swiss frontier. Near Dongo, 30 miles from the Swiss border, the lead armored car was stopped by a roadblock. Italian partisans, members of the fabled 52nd Garibaldi Brigade, began their search. One of the things they found was a grotesque figure of a man in a swastika-marked helmet with a German corporal's greatcoat draped over his black-shirted Fascist uniform. Two days later...
...Philippines, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles ("Chip") Bohlen presented his credentials to President Carlos P. Garcia at Malacanan Palace, later chatted informally over cigarettes while the first rain after a long dry spell-an omen for the new ambassador's success-began to fall on Manila...