Word: rainstorm
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...other battalions from the 101st and a battalion from the Vietnamese 1st Division were brought up as reinforcements. On May 18, two battalions-all of their men loaded down with 40 magazines of rifle ammunition-tried again, and were thrown back just short of the crest in a blinding rainstorm and a shower of Communist grenades. One company commander stilled growing discontent among his men by telling them that "we are soldiers, and we have to do our job." He was scared, he said. "Everybody was scared. But we had to go back...
...scene had not been quite so auspicious earlier, as Pierre Elliott Trudeau arrived in the capital in a rainstorm. President Richard Nixon's first state visitor looked unwontedly grave, nervously kneaded his hands, and said rather awkwardly that he looked forward to "the information and wisdom that you will want to impart upon me in your talks." Trudeau had every reason to be wary. His government is upset over U.S. attitudes on oil imports and wheat prices. It is apprehensive about Nixon's Safeguard ABM system. It is engaged in an intensive review of foreign and defense policy...
...Florida, voter apathy-together with a torrential rainstorm-may have cost another Johnson man, former (1955-61) Democratic Governor LeRoy Collins, 59, his expected senatorial nomination. While the downpour (2.27 in. in Miami) in the state's populous southern tip kept many of Collins' supporters home, good weather in the rest of the state did nothing to hinder his conservative opponent, Attorney General Earl Faircloth, 47. Collins missed a majority by a mere...
...gave the Texas Gulf Coast twelve days' advance warning on her course. In the Caribbean and Mexico, where Beulah rampaged for two weeks before striking Texas, the storm took about 40 lives-in part because of inadequate radio warning. By the time she had deteriorated into a gusty rainstorm over south Texas at week's end, Beulah had wrought up to $1 billion in damage...
...developed a stereotype of the cinema dancer that endured for more than a decade: an ordinary chap in sports shirt, ballooning slacks and white socks (to draw attention to his feet). His style was virile, breezy, and charged with a lusty bravura, whether he was splashing through a Technicolor rainstorm, kicking up his heels beneath the Eiffel Tower, or skittering across Manhattan stoops in his Navy whites. Though his singing voice sounded like someone gargling pebbles, he projected an easy grace and wit that made him the most sought-after song-and-dance man in Hollywood...