Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue of health is a real one. The country is fortunate that all the facts have been put before it, and not hidden behind the kind of bravado that drove F. D. Roosevelt through the rain in his last campaign...
...rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain," Bernard Shaw has his madeover Liza Doolittle triumphantly recite in his film Pygmalion, thus inadvertently giving modern literature its one memorable line characterizing the equable climate of the Iberian Peninsula. But there was nothing temperate about February's weather in Spain. The cold wave which had paralyzed southern Europe swept down over the Pyrenees and deposited a blanket of frost which chilled to the bone millions of lightly dressed Spaniards living in unheated homes and, far worse, ruined the crops on hundreds of thousands of olive, almond and citrus trees. Hardest...
...Japan a short time after vibrations in the earth, sea or air have disclosed a Russian test in Siberia or a U.S. test in mid-Pacific. But on one occasion last year, a mass crossed Japan that had seemingly got lost. It arrived from the west, dropping radioactive rain on much of Japan and radioactive dust on the northern island of Hokkaido. A sample sent to Tokyo proved to be ordinary dust from the Gobi Desert, which often falls on Japan. It must have got its radioactivity from a "hot" air mass that passed near the Gobi...
...Rain & Fogged Film. To find out whether the air mass actually traveled around the earth, the Japanese wrote to scientists along its theoretical route asking if they had seen any signs of it. Confirmation came from Paris, where radioactive rain had fallen. The fission products from faraway Nevada had also fogged photographic film as they drifted over Europe. Dr. Miyake is sure that the rest of the trajectory mapped out for the "tracer" is also accurate. The north-and-south waviness of the route is characteristic of the high altitude winds that blow around the earth in north temperate latitudes...
...dawn broke over Montgomery next day, tension lay thickly beneath an apparent calm. Thousands of Negroes walked to work through the rain in a nonviolent demonstration. Then, at week's end, Alabama's Governor James Folsom called for a Bi-Racial Commission to try to work out some new ways of putting the pieces back together in a city that would somehow never be the same again...