Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgia Tech (4-1)-suffered its first loss to resurgent Auburn, on a rain-drenched field...
...Auburn (3-1)-rain made its gang-tackling defense formidable...
...near midnight in Mayfair, heart of London's gilded West End. Rain clouds had driven Sunday window-shoppers home early, not a bobby was in sight, and the drifting squadrons of prostitutes who once crowded Mayfair's shadowy lanes had long since been sent to cover with the enactment of Britain's tough new laws against streetwalking. When a solitary car pulled to a halt in front of the Piccadilly shop of the Goldsmiths' & Silversmiths' Association, the stage was set for the greatest jewel robbery in Britain's history...
...straight Columbia triumphs followed in the next six years, as Harvard football plunged to an all-time low. But the long years of suffering were nearly at an end. In 1955, the Crimson soundly whipped the Lions, 21 to 7, in the rain and mud at Baker Field. Benham engineered the varsity's defeat in 1956, but with his graduation passed an era in Columbia football...
There were four mass rallies: an opening ceremony and parade in the Weiner Sports Stadium; an anti-colonialism meeting which was largely unsuccessful because of a poor choice of location and impending rain; an expertly handled parade on Vienna's Ring ending in a "solidarity" rally in a public park, featuring singer Paul Robeson; and the closing ceremony by the Vienna Rathaus, which was basically an international talent show...