Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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November 9 dawned cold, and though the rain from the day before had stopped the overcast sky seemed to predict snow and possibly something else. The something else arrived, staring the freshman, the sophomore, the junior, the senior in the face as he opened his door and picked up his usually staid, quiet-looking CRIMSON. Black headlines leaped...
...away. Yet last week, as he flew off to a Baghdad Pact meeting in Karachi, tough Premier Adnan Menderes had the look of a man well satisfied with things. As his plane winged eastward, he could look pleasantly down on Anatolia, usually brown, now lushly green. Six weeks of rain had changed the vital wheat crop prospects from poor to good...
...class," middle-aged Bill Mor wonders what to do with a life already half wasted in the chalky smog of history classrooms and hopelessly Potterized by his wife, a ruthless practitioner of "one-upmanship." The chance of liberation comes in the figure of a beautiful, boyish girl artist named Rain Carter, who is commissioned to paint the portrait of the school's worldly retired headmaster. She comprises all the values-art, gaiety, wisdom-that have passed...
...spring lots of tornadoes come and everyone is hoping that one will come and destroy the school. And with the tornadoes comes rain and hail which might flood the city. Then not one person will have to go to school...
Even before the Bravo explosion, the AEC had begun to check worldwide radioactivity and is still at it. In the gardens of U.S. employees abroad, pans exposed to the sky collect rain and dust. Their catch is sent periodically to the AEC along with foreign cheese and other, foodstuffs. Another AEC importation: foreign human cadavers for radioanalysis...