Word: rainswept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gleaming retriever sat quivering with expectancy as the shotguns shattered the stillness of the misty morning in Washington's rainswept Snoqualmie River valley. The first pheasant dropped behind the dog. The second, whirring off into the mist, wheeled at the shot and fell into the brush to one side. The third was brought down just across the river. Then the handler issued a sharp command: "Fetch...
...rainswept runway at Toronto's Downsview Airport, a stubby little blue-grey plane took off after a 500-ft. run and nosed upward into a steep climb. It turned back over the field at 170 m.p.h., did tight circles and vertical banks. Then the pilot cut his speed to a plodding 55 m.p.h. and drifted over, waggling his wings to show his control of the aircraft even on the brink of a stall. At the landing, the brakes stopped the plane within 500 feet...
...more than two months, they roamed the hills around Lake Orta, 45 miles northwest of Milan, checking on partisan groups, radioing back coded reports to OSS headquarters in Siena, always playing a nerve-racking hide & seek with the enemy. One night, they lay flattened out in a rainswept field listening to Nazi convoys splashing down the road 100 yards away; for several days, they were hidden in a church altar vault while German troopers camped below...
...taste bad. What was worse, his home in the provincial English town where he lived with his deaf mother was getting on his nerves. After a day at his dull bank clerk's job, his restlessness would become intolerable, driving him out for long, aimless walks. On the rainswept night that the strapping young stranger stopped to ask the way to a nearby town, Langrish felt as though a "seismic disturbance" were taking place in his brain...