Word: rainstorm
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...film is as much a pleasure to see as it is to hear. Hardly a single routine shot of rolling countrysides deaden the 20 minutes running time. Morgan and his associate Richard Harris have concentrated on details: a few chickens shaking the water of a rainstorm form their feathers, the closeup of a ringing church bell, a frog in a pond. And then there are the people of Auvergne themselves, their faces caught haggling over the price of a bill at the fair and their hands weighing out fish in a market-place. Although Songs of the Auvergne is photographed...
Isolated Towns. The floods were mothered by another hurricane, Diane, which swept toward the U.S. from the mid-Atlantic. But Diane turned out to be a weak sister, and soon after hitting the Carolina coast she became a mere squalling rainstorm. When the fading Diane hit the hot and humid Northeast, she released a torrent of rain-the moisture that Diane had sucked out of the ocean when she was still a whirling hurricane. For 24 hours the rains fell from burst clouds, filling rivers and streams, inundating large areas of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York...
...four breathless days in London, the mayor chatted with the Duke of Edinburgh, invited Princess Margaret to New York "any time she pleases," toured the Houses of Parliament, boated on the Thames and dined at the Fishmongers' Hall. A rainstorm delayed the Wagners on their way to another dinner party at the U.S. embassy, kept Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich and the other dinner guests dawdling over their cocktails for a full hour. Wagner was on time for his visit with Queen Mother Elizabeth, however, and reported that the Queen "told me I could smoke, and reminded me that I smoked...
...assigned to test the raindrop effect. On a U.S. Navy firing range outside San Diego, Convair's engineers developed a simple but effective experiment. To approximate supersonic flight, test pellets of aircraft materials (e.g., light metals, plastics, fabrics) were fired from a standard 20-mm. cannon through a "rainstorm" produced by a 500-ft. series of sprinklers. The pellets' speed was kept constant-1,520 m.p.h.-and a parachute, timed to open after 1,500 ft., brought the projectile to earth...
...Last Days. In the final 72 hours, a tropical rainstorm lashed the doomed 10,000-man garrison. Trenches sagged and crumbled in the blinding rain. Latrines filled and festered. The water supply turned foul. French Commanding General Christian de Castries checked his three surviving strongpoints-Claudine in the west, Eliane in the east, isolated Isabelle three miles to the south. All was quiet, save for the rain, and the occasional crack of a Communist rifle way off somewhere in the hills. That night, De Castries summoned his staff to Junon, his command post, for one last chivalric rite of battle...