Word: raining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Detroit at Chicago postponed, rain...
...House attendants worried about a leak in the sky light just over the dais. Rainwater dripped steadily through the pane containing the State Seal of Oklahoma. Towels were placed to catch the drip. But the Roosevelt luck held: just as the President's car reached the Capitol, the rain stopped. - Joined the U. S. with the 20 other American republics in a protest against the German invasions as "unjustifiable and cruel...
Last week in San Francisco's harbor lay the Kwang Yuan, a 28 year-old tramp three-master. Her deck machinery was rusted tight by rain, barnacles were four inches deep on her rusty hull. In the captain's quarters lounged "Captain" Chan Tze-ming; in the engine room "Chief Engineer" Wang Chi-fu reigned over nosy harbor rats and cold, dry engines. It was the Kwang Yuan's third year at anchor...
...stuffing their fingers in their ears, glanced anxiously from the suspended bomb to a nearby ambulance. Everything was ready. Two truckloads of irreverent army goatherds amused themselves by bleating in imitation of the goats. Here, there and everywhere, trailing the skirts of his green slicker, hat drooping with rain, pants spattered with mud, gesturing excitedly, hopped Mr. Barlow. The goats munched...
Down to Union Station to meet her went 6,000 bearded men and gingham-gowned women. Braving the bleak, rain-speckled wind was roly-poly Mayor Dan B. Butler, who asked giddy Gracie to call him "Dan." Said she: "You can't say Dan over the radio...