Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...streets, and the collapse of an apartment building pinned 84 in the wreckage. Eighteen miles south at Handa (pop. 68,000), gale winds and high seas crashed a 1,000-ton ship against the sea wall, and the raging ocean burst through, sweeping away 250 homes. In central Japan, rain-choked streams surged over their banks, and 85 bodies were taken from the raging Nagara River alone. Japanese railroads, cut in 120 places, virtually ceased to run. With more than 6,000 dead, injured, and missing, and more than 800,000 homeless, Vera became the worst storm to hit Japan...
...267th game of his 15-season major-league career. The Giants' Sad Sam ("Toothpick") Jones. 33 (TIME, Sept. 21), had pitched so often that his battered right arm swung like a pendulum. But somehow Sam managed to no-hit the Cards 4-0 in a game stopped by rain after seven innings, kept his third-place team in contention...
These essential difficulties are partly balanced by certain specifically cinematic excellences. Tony Richardson, the director, does fine atmospheric things with grubby streets pouring disconsolate rain, and the nerve-wracking, shouting bustle of a public market. On the other hand, he tends to hammer home his crises much too obviously, and he has not generally done well with his principals. They tend toward loud whispers, harsh, throaty low tones, and quick sharp short sudden utterances--a pattern that has become a movie cliche...
...Crimson's fate, coach Bruce Munro said yesterday, hangs largely upon the whims of Gracie. If the expected storms hold off, the small varsity line should be able to work its precision attack to perfection--early-season perfection, at least. But a murky playing field or a driving rain would give the larger Jumbos a definite advantage. Then, too, the weather may become violent enough to postpone the game, as it did last fall...
...Lifetime opened, Moss Hart staged a melodramatic epilogue: he rushed his family out of their cheap apartment, forcing them to leave the very plates on the table and the toothbrushes in their racks, and moved them to a posh Manhattan hotel; along the way, in a driving rain, he stopped at the Music Box theater, where people were lining up at the box office, and drew a $500 advance...