Word: wettest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missouri's late Speaker of the House and son of former Senator Bennett Clark, now U.S. Circuit Judge in the District of Columbia. Young (28) Clark's regular work is at the rewrite desk of the Kansas City Star, where he was assigned late in June, wettest month on Kansas weather records, to write the stories on flood conditions throughout the region...
...normal July, Kansas is as hot and dry as a wheat beard in the afternoon sun, with searing winds browning the stubble and curling the corn leaves. But this is no normal year. June was the wettest month in Kansas weather records (since 1886), and the rain continued into July. When torrential rains poured down last week, there was nothing for the water to do but run off the saturated soil. It ran with a fury never before seen in Kansas...
...wettest June in Paris' memory. "Summer already?" grumped the Communist L'Humanité. "And what about spring? A day without sunshine, or a meal without wine, that's bad enough-but a year without spring, that's indeed a hard blow. And all this is again the fault of the Americans. Not only do they occupy our land . . . but they shut off our sunshine!" The Communist journal then expounded a thoroughly unlikely theory that France's bad weather was the direct result of U.S. atomic experiments on faraway Eniwetok Atoll. "Thus," it cried, "while...
Director Lloyd Bacon and his technical crew, working with what must be Hollywood's coldest, wettest cast, have handled their subject with skill and resourcefulness. They shot for seven weeks in the waters off Norfolk, Key West and the Virgin Islands, used such special equipment as a seven-ton undersea camera bell, a Navy-developed underwater camera, anti-shark chemicals to protect the actors. John Tucker Battle's script wisely keeps women out of the picture, serves as a dependable framework for the action scenes that make The Frogmen an arresting movie...