Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driving rain washed the front-runners right out of the money in the final round of the Los Angeles Open golf tournament. But former P.G.A. Champion Doug Ford splashed out of the pack with a 280-stroke total to edge Florida's Jay Hebert away from the $7,000 first prize by a stroke...
...inside with earthen buttresses. This was the treatment applied to Dura's synagogue. As a result, when the city finally fell about A.D. 256, the synagogue's paintings "were protected," Professor Kraeling writes, "from the ravages of the city's capture and from centuries of rain and sunlight by earth heaped about and above them, and thus preserved intact...
...began departing for trains to London, Paris, Rome and Vienna, Host Andrea Badrutt said goodbye in six languages, gave each a small bottle of cognac to ease the parting journey. As snow fell onto the white peaks, his mother looked fondly at the flake-filled sky, cried: "Ah, golden rain, golden rain...
...specially convened meeting of farm, business and local government representatives to discuss possible improvements in the Government's already extensive relief program. No matter how high the new totals may go, ultimate relief can come only from a source uncontrolled by man: the saving beneficence of drenching rain or heavy snow...
...bountiful Lake Maracaibo area would be the joyous national equivalent of breaking the bank at Monte Carlo. Last week, in nine countries within 1,500 miles of Maracaibo, the quest for black gold was on more earnestly than ever before, with U.S. oilmen leading the pack. In rain forests and cane fields, dozens of drilling rigs probed for the telltale "show...