Word: rains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Christian, Shusako Endo was literally a man caught between Japanese and Western values. His early novels tended to be overly symbolic - volcanoes were always poised to rain down judgment on the unrighteous, but later works like Silence and The Samurai are superb accounts of East failing to meet West. Because of his Christian preoccupations, Endo has become one of Japan's best-known writers overseas. The most underrated of the great Japanese modernists in the West is Junichiro Tanizaki, whose portrait of a prewar Osaka family, The Makioka Sisters, is one of the landmarks of 20th century literature...
...looked plenty good, and when Colby and she went one-two in the Reward Challenge rope course, she was definitely threatening to join the living, personality-wise. And when she stared down the horizon and uttered those unforgettable words - "Hope. Hope for a fish. A nice night with no rain." - something stirred. She was the savant, the Chauncey Gardiner of the outback, and by the end of all this we'll all be in love with...
...double-header was originally scheduled for last Sunday, but rain forced the games to be postponed until yesterday...
...according to the scorebook, the inning never existed. The game was cancelled in between the top and bottom halves of the sixth after a half-hour rain delay...
...threw enough dust into the air to block out some sunlight and slow down the rate of warming. That effect has dissipated, and the heating should start to accelerate. Moreover, the IPCC noted, many countries have begun to reduce their emissions of sulfur dioxide in order to fight acid rain. But sulfur dioxide particles, too, reflect sunlight; without this shield, temperatures should go up even faster...