Word: raining
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...light rain is falling upon the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius in Zagorsk. The monastery stands behind a fortress wall, half a mile around and 50 ft. thick, that protects the weathered stones and ancient relics of Trinity Cathedral. It is graduation day at the most important of the Soviet Union's three surviving Russian Orthodox seminaries. The 78 graduates, clad in black tunics and trousers, take their places in the cathedral before the ornate screen, hung with treasured icons, that separates the sanctuary from the congregation. Hundreds of candles shimmer against the gold and silver on the walls...
...classy company-for a colt bent on winning the most difficult of the Triple Crown classics. Not surprisingly, Temperence Hill went off at 50-to-l odds. But the Belmont, with its withering distance of 1½ miles and its deep, fatiguing track-compounded this day by a rain that turned the surface to mud-has long been a race of upsets...
...chairman of the Happy Committee, Gray makes one report a year--at the March meeting of the AHA. "We report that it's not going to rain on Commencement day," Gray explains...
...rain poured down on observers two years ago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn used the Commencement podium to launch a biting diatribe at the West's value structure. The voice of the interpreter blended with the Nobel Prize winner's producing a grating effect and making listening difficult. But his words rang out far beyond the confines of the Tercentenary theater; a rebuttal from Rosalynn Carter and mixed public and press reaction were not long in coming...
...graduation in 1968 were whether you were going to go, whether you would wear an arm band or whether you would strike," one graduate remembers of a day marked by bitter silent demonstration against the Vietnam War. Few seniors attended the ceremonies that morning and when a heavy rain forced the afternoon speeches inside Sanders Theater, even fewer stayed to listen to the afternoon's main speaker and honorary degree recipient--Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran...