Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cloudy, continued mild today, highest temperature in low 50s. Low tonight in 40s, occasional showers. Scattered rain, clouds and southerly winds tomorrow...
...lurid scenery. Composer Bacon's music, liberally scored for piano, vibraphone and harp, illuminates the text and is occasionally brilliantly evocative, e.g., in the tiny, clear sounds of the orchestra accompanying the words "The evening star hung like a drop of water in the sky" following an Indian rain dance. In other sections the music is fragmented by the necessities of text and sounds merely like a bland movie sound track...
...week's end Vice President Nixon, with his wife and children, went in the rain to Washington's National Airport to bid the King goodbye. As Saud boarded a Constellation bound for the Azores, where a Spanish plane would transport him to his next stop in Spain, Nixon said he hoped that the bad weather "doesn't leave a bad impression on Your Majesty." Replied Saud of Arabia: The rain was of no consequence; he would remember "the warmth of the heart...
...strontium 90 from the nuclear reaction to the human body. Most of it was produced by the biggest thermonuclear explosions, U.S. and Soviet, and most of it rose high into the stratosphere. The particles are so small that they fall very slowly until they reach the lower atmosphere. Then rain washes them quickly down to the surface. This process takes time; strontium 90 is now spread all over the earth, with somewhat less in the Southern than in the Northern Hemisphere...
...rain produced such treacherous footing on the ice that neither team was able to maintain a consistent attack...