Word: raining
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Minnesota at Texas, ppd. rain...
...March, hydrogen gas began rising from a shed on the property where 25 badly corroded drums of chlorosilane had been stored next to 100 bbl. of flammable solvents. Rain soaking the chlorosilane created a smoky chemical reaction. Fear of an explosion caused city officials to order the area vacated for several hours. Says Vance: "We had a 13-acre keg of dynamite." Firemen rushed to separate the drums. Now, Vance frets, "every time we have a thunderstorm I think, 'My God, don't let lightning hit out there...
...sleep doesn't seem to do much for me. But the woods do, where thoughts of weather, of food, and of the day's journey so dominate the mind that everything else subsides. The rise and fall of temperature and of wind, the beginning and the end of the rain matter here in a way that is irrelevant elsewhere." Never mind that a few sentences later McPhee has returned to an exhaustive discussion of the latest in camping gear; for a moment, he has cornered hard to capture feeling...
...wishers turned out to cheer him on. In Toronto, 10,000 people greeted him. It was impossible not to admire his gutsiness and determination. He ran with a kind of hop and a skip with his prosthetic leg, on good days covering up to 30 miles. He ran through rain, snow and hailstones during the early weeks, then endured the sizzling afternoon sun of June and July. At one point, a welder did spot repairs on the artificial limb...
DIVORCED. Tuesday Weld, 37, perennial Hollywood starlet of the 1960s who survived to become a creditable actress (Play It as It Lays, Who'll Stop the Rain); and Dudley Moore, 45, diminutive comic actor who helped create the satirical revues Beyond the Fringe and Good Evening and pursued Bo Derek in "10 "; after five years of marriage, one son, Patrick...