Word: rainstorms
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...airport. On a moonlit field, surrounded by towering hills, he stuffed his big frame into a buoyant flying jacket* and crawled into the belly of a British bomber. The plane took off, heading north over shadowy peaks toward an Albanian port. Soon they ran into heavy mist, then a rainstorm moved in from the sea. When the pilot realized he was off his course, he dropped a flare that lighted up the hills, showed the sheer rock face of a bluff looming ahead. He dropped one bomb to lighten the plane, had no chance to release another. On a desolate...
...dashing Jim Logan (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). When the matter-of-fact Baron spends most of his time bagging specimens, Linda undertakes to jog him into jealousy and a proposal by flirting with Jim. The moment seems to have arrived when Linda and Jim, caught away from camp by a rainstorm, have to hole up in a tree for the night. No Columbia man, Cinemactor Fairbanks drops off to sleep. But he wakes up later...
Last winter engineers had warned Congressmen that the Capitol roof badly needed repairs. Month ago, during a rainstorm while the House was in session, water pattered down on Speaker Bankhead's desk. To a deficiency bill, also passed at week's end in the closing session, the House added $585,000-to insulate itself against the weather...
While creating a window, Connick must calculate how that window will look in all weather and from all distances. He frequently paints water color pictures showing its appearance at dawn, noon, during a rainstorm and so forth. The result, in his words, is a "symphony of color which fascinates one as it goes through all its phases...