Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this heady new atmosphere political machines sprang up like mushrooms after a rain, and in no time at all 23 parties had named 965 candidates. Most formidable of the opposition groups was the Prachathipat (Democratic) Party headed by thin, reedy-voiced ex-Premier Nai Khuang Aphaiwong, who upheld the Pibul government's staunchly pro-Western foreign policy, but damned its corruption and authoritarianism. "We live under a government of gangsters," shrilled Nai Khuang, to the delight of thousands of assembled Bangkokians...
...that for once Hollywood permitted a playwright, N. Richard Nash, to write a screenplay which did no serious damage to his original. Nash has a pleasant story to tell. It concerns a brash, fast-talking confidence man who rides into a drought-stricken prairie town and promises to make rain. And he makes rain, too, but not before teaching a girl on the verge of settling down to becoming an old maid something about the power of faith in dreams. All this, including the symbolism involved, comes dangerously close to banality--but without ever once touching it, because Nash knows...
...PRESIDENCY 'What I'm Going to Do' Into the vortex of the Israel crisis flew the President of the U.S., his forehead deeply furrowed, his mood somber as he alighted from an Air Force Constellation at Washington National Airport in a cold and soaking rain. "This is some weather," he growled to his military and naval aides, hankering back to the vacation he had just cut short in sunny Thomasville, Ga. As he sped off downtown to the White House, Ike huddled down into his tan raincoat, reached often into his left coat pocket for a handkerchief...
Through a drizzling rain, the coffin was carried on its final trip to Milan's Monu-mentale Cemetery, where three massed choirs sang the famous chorus ("Go our thoughts on golden wings") from Verdi's Nabucco-the same music that Toscanini himself tearfully conducted at Verdi's funeral 56 years ago. Then, without a spoken word, Maestro was placed beside his son and his wife Carla: Section 7, Tomb 184. "Milan and the world of music," reported // Giorno, "knelt at his grave...
...conducts the instruments, singers, and chorus, hums through comb-and-tissue-paper, and coordinates the other unlikely effects that intersperse the opera. The stage direction by Margaret Fairbank is usually enlivening, although there are some leaden moments. There is, however, a good deal of tension built up when the rain comes and the ranchers dance...