Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ocean area the size of Indiana, so that even if its shield were pierced, not more than one of its ships could be knocked out by any one existing weapon. As the admirals see it, that task force could appear on a given afternoon off any enemy coast, rain atomic-or thermonuclear-destruction, disperse rapidly, pop up the next afternoon to strike 600 miles away. With its extreme mobility on its ocean-wide base, the Navy could, at last, fight any kind...
...year ago Adenauer stood bareheaded in a drizzling rain to watch the flag of the Federal Republic raised for the first time. His nation, a decade before the smoking ruins of Hitler's Reich, was accepted in the world again, largely because of him. This was his moment of triumph...
...score-for the rain-then-shine California romance of an aging Italian winegrower and the young waitress he has courted by mail-is at its best where it is lightest or most lightly lyrical. There is a male quartet cocking a very male eye in Standing on the Corner; there is the sheer Broadway frolicking of Big D, with its salute to Dallas; the gay lesson-in-English of Happy to Make Your Acquaintance; the Verdi-gurdy high spirits of Abbondanza and Sposalizio. But there is also the lyrical How Beautiful the Days, with its touch of Bellini-like sweetness...
...Rain slicked the winding mountain roads, slowing the entrants in Italy's 992-mile road race, the Mille Miglia. But before Milan's Eugenio Castellotti drove his tomato-red Ferrari to victory, two drivers and three spectators were killed, 16 others (including ten drivers) were injured...
...Neither Rain nor Snow. In Joliet, Ill., arrested after postal inspectors found eleven bags of parcel-post packages, two cartons and two suitcases full of undelivered letters, cards, newspapers and magazines strewn over the floor of his bedroom, ex-Postman Alvin Timm explained that he had dumped the mail because he is subject to bunions and tires easily...