Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...riding in a car. He therefore set off on foot from the swank, twelve-room Park Avenue apartment where he lives with his strikingly handsome wife Marion and their three children (Joy Deborah, 8, Joshua Moses, 6, and Carla, 1). Exposing his conservatively tailored $200 suit to a driving rain, he walked across a twelve-mile radius on Manhattan's Upper West Side to visit six synagogues. It was 8 p.m. before a bedraggled Jack Javits returned from the last intoned "Shalom Aleichem." Said he: "I feel more dead than alive...
...most exciting finds in the past two decades is the 20-in.-tall statuette of the Mayan Rain God Chaac (see color), one of two discovered by a Carnegie Institution expedition in the ruined Yucatan city of Mayapan, and now on view at Mexico City's National Museum. Probably sculpted from clay in the 14th century, the prong-nosed Chaac is seen here in full regalia, with all his accouterments worked out in the full complexity of the Mayan style...
Chaac was the most important god in the everyday life of the corn-growing Mayans. Betokening his rain-producing powers, he is shown with two pots for water, one adorned with corn symbol. Beneath his ojo de serpiente (eye of the snake) headdress, he presents a double aspect: one side still wears the now-muted green of lush cornfields; the other is the weathered brown of drought...
...Newcombe, working with only two days of rest following his five hour, rain-interrupted pitching chore in Pittsburgh Sunday, was not quite up to it. He had to be excused at the end of five innings, trailing 4-2, after having been bashed for five of Philadelphia's 10 hits...
...buffeting mistral outside Aries before Van Gogh's first attack, is faithful to the glowing description he wrote his brother of a "red vineyard, all red like red wine. In the distance it turned to yellow, and then a green sky with the sun, the earth after the rain violet, sparkling yellow here and there where it caught the setting...