Word: reno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...east as Reno, rain sent the peaceful Truckee River on a binge, cut the city in half. Undaunted tourists kept yanking undaunted one-arm bandits in Harolds Club, joked about floating crap games. Though no lives were lost, the Reno region suffered $5,000,000 in damages. In southwest Oregon, the heaviest rains in 78 years brought floods that killed twelve people and flung huge fir logs off cliffs like harpoons...
...dogs would be running all over the place. And he'd be telling his daughter, right in the middle of it: 'White is the color of purity, so if you want to get married in white, be sure that you live morally. Otherwise, get married in Reno or something. Or don't wear white...
Married. Yvonne de Carlo, 33, sultry cinemadventuress (Salome, Where She Danced, The Captain's Paradise); and Robert Drew Morgan, 40, Hollywood stunt man; she for the first, he for the second time; in Reno...
Nothing is too insignificant to escape their wrenlike curiosity. "You'd be surprised at the signs," says Mrs. Gill. "I noted them down. The ones we saw all over the United States were the Clabber Girl advertisement, Quaker State motor oil, Burma-Shave, Harold's Club of Reno and Jesse James's Hideout." Mrs. Gill has also noted every highway sign she has seen that needs correcting. "America," she says, "is full of wrong directions...
Married. Lieut. General Sir Alexander Hood, 67, Governor of Bermuda from 1949 to April 1955; and Helen Winifred Wilkinson, 50; both for the second time; in Reno...