Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local St. Vincent de Paul Society in Beirut, Lebanon, which is 35 ft. by 23 ft., with foot-high Wise Men, shepherds, animals moving in opposite directions against a papier-mâché background of Judea. Overhead, the Star of Bethlehem and angels wheel through the sky, real rain falls, water turns a mill wheel, and on a silken coverlet a Christ child (wired for six volts) raises his head and opens his blue eyes...
...Limb. In Cologne, Germany, arrested for sitting in a tree in the rain and peeking at a girl through her window, a man explained that he intended to propose to someone but wanted to be sure she was a good housekeeper...
Southward to Fortune. The 14 million Overseas Chinese living in the area they call Nanyang, the Southern Ocean, looked desperately for a way out of the rain of repressive laws. Some turned to Red China and some to the Nationalist stronghold on Formosa, but all felt that their existence was at stake. The matter was hotly argued last week in Manila's tiny sari-sari shops by the flickering light of kerosene lamps, in Bangkok's "thieves' market," where peddlers cautiously hawk rare Siamese antiques, in Singapore's Tanjong Rhu, the "millionaires' club," where wealthy...
...home longer than Lichtenberg; both men being somewhat alike in their appreciation of the virtues of the middle-class life. Lichtenberg, however, was no timid professor. One of the most appealing things about him is his interest and enthusiasm over the minor occurrences in his life. A simple rain storm was as apt to inspire him to comment as his "God, who winds our sundials." "It rained so hard the pigs got clean and the people dirty." Or in a line which interested him as it has always interested men: "His beatings showed a sort of sex drive: he beat...
...procession rolled up to the Quirinale Palace, where the President and his party were to stay, Italy's President Gronchi seemed acutely embarrassed about the rain-splashed welcome. "Ah, Mr. President," said Gronchi, with a sad-eyed shrug. Ike reached out and patted Gronchi on the sleeve, said he felt that the welcome had been very warm, expressed understanding about the bad weather. And in the splendid patina of the Quirinale, the party's spirits picked up. That afternoon Ike found time for a nap. His son Major John and Daughter-in-Law Barbara explored the sprawling, centuries...