Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear, quiet prose, Berger wrote the most moving account of all. At last, wrote Berger, "it was nine minutes after ten under a brilliant summer sky when the Andrea Doria, in a final plunge, went down in 225 feet of water, her hull glistening, her shroud a rain of spray caused by her violent death . . . There was no sound from the rescue ships, only a murmur, a sound...
...sending out pulses of radio waves which are reflected by raindrops, hailstones and other precipitation particles. Shorter waves rebound from the tiny drops of moisture of a cloud's surface. The longer wave bands penetrate clouds like X rays, show only the inner core (if any) of heavy rain or hail.- Thus, by varying wave bands and pulse lengths, the new weather radars can look at a cloud as a whole or can look deeply into it, or even through it. They can measure accurately a cloud's altitude -a matter of critical importance, since the highest storm...
...E.D.T., replacing Caesar's Hour), an erratic, off-beat comedy hour during which Kovacs may become Pierre Ragout, French raconteur; Uncle Gruesome, specialist in bedtime stories for morbid children; or J. Walter Puppybreath, maker of untenable aphorisms. He may appear inside a bottle holding up an umbrella as rain pours in until he is completely submerged, or try to sell viewers on Lost beer, a nonexistent beverage, exhorting them to "Get Lost...
...careful plans were upset almost from the start. French Driver Louis Hery piled up his little (750 cc.) Panhard first time around the course. A few hours later he was dead of head injuries. As rain slicked the course, at least a dozen cars skidded, collided or overturned. But a phalanx of 1,000 gendarmes surrounded the track, and spectators at least were kept from harm...
...many cases converting the illiterate to literacy in the process. One such journal turned up on my desk this week: Issue No. 259 of the Loma Weekly, a Mimeographed paper that serves the natives of the mud-hut village of Wozi (estimated population: 250) in the dense, equatorial rain forest of Liberia. Reading it in New York, some 5,000 miles away, I found Wozi's news lively, to say the least...