Word: showering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weather. When horses' tails are large, when horses scratch themselves against trees or fences, when chickens or turkeys stand with their backs to the wind, when whirlwinds lift the dust on roads, rain is coming. A sunny shower means that "the Devil is a-whuppin' his wife." A mild Christmas means a heavy harvest, but "a green Christmas makes a fat graveyard." When a cat sits down with its tail toward the fire, the hillman looks for a cold spell...
...chill breezes forecast for the coming week, aquatic activities of summer students will remain confined to the 50 yard swimming test for new men administered in the Indoor Athletic Building, and the dorm shower...
...decided that the French postwar gas was too anemic to trust. Without Tilgenkamp, the Swiss balloon, manned by two assistants, struggled to a height of twelve feet and began to settle earthward. The crowd gasped. Like lightning the Swiss aeronauts jerked the strings on their sandbags. Amid a shower of sand the big orange ball went bounding over the treetops, to land 50 kilometers away. "Vive la Suisse!" cried the crowd. Then France's first entry, ample, blonde Mlle. Paulette Weber, sailed off alone, equipped only with ham sandwiches and a bottle of rum "to keep warm, in case...
...cannot foresee the day when he'll be doing play-by-play sportcasts, "until they invent teletype in Braille," but he frankly hopes that his program will interest the networks. His chief worry: that a sudden shower at a game will ruin the perforated dots of his notes, leave him speechless at broadcast time...
...only priority messages (requests and instructions for Red Cross workers, embalmers, blood donors, etc.) were handled. Later, he sent and received "personal welfare" transmissions (inquiries about individuals). When the second explosion came at 1:11 a.m. Thursday, Standley flung himself to the floor and went on transmitting in a shower of glass. After 250-odd messages, with the emergency over, dog-tired Standley went off the air and home...