Word: rainstorms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family." Davis ensured that he would be detached both physically and emotionally from the backyard by setting his retreat on steel posts so that it seems to float above the pond. The 2¼-inch-thick vaulted concrete roof was meant to be both elegant and playful. During a rainstorm the extended roof-beam "gargoyle" rainspouts will channel water into the pool in a miniature cascade that any 18th century fancier of gazebos or octagonal summerhouses would have applauded...
...ocean-going yacht Caleb (Seagull), the two Presidents and their wives rang in the New Year in memorable fashion. Dancers trampled the palace lawn with polkas and Partisan Kolo. At midnight Tito and Sukarno embraced and kissed. At dawn the revelers were dancing in their shirtsleeves. A rainstorm broke; they moved inside. Not until 7 a.m. did the party break...
...days, after enduring near-100° temperatures and a rainstorm that drenched him to the skin, Photographer Wayman's patience was rewarded, and his color film caught the full flight, from start to finish, of the second test flight of the U.S.'s intercontinental ballistics missile, the Atlas. Hours later, the film was on its way to New York for processing, and the following day the pictures were in Chicago being engraved and printed. This week, less than seven days after the event, they appear in TIME, the first color photographs of the Atlas in flight. See NATIONAL...
...modest Oklahoma Co-Captain Don Stiller, just as if he had not noticed the final 26-0 score. The remark made almost as much sense as Coach Wilkinson's pre-game prediction: "Frankly, we don't expect to win at all." ¶ Bogged down by a driving rainstorm, Texas A. & M. needed every one of three versatile quarterbacks to salvage a tough game from Maryland...
...nameless rock he has no bun and no penny. As he slowly goes mad from hunger while a rainstorm unmercifully keeps him from death by thirst, he imagines that he is Atlas and Prometheus. By the time the gulls have become flying lizards to him, he imagines-in the fictional season's most unpleasant metaphor for the condition of man-the last huge master-maggot of a box previously full of smaller maggots which, he has heard, are cultivated by Chinese gourmets...