Word: rainswept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local maiden and her Syrian fiancé. The bridegroom's two brothers-a Maronite monk named Father Genadrios Mourani. 32, and Seminarian Jean Mourani. 23-arrived in nearby Tripoli with their cousin. Father Georges Mourani. 34. Hiring a taxi, the three Syrians set out in the rainswept dusk for Kobeyat, passing through a spectral countryside of deserted, barren hills. As they rounded a curve on the approach to the village, the night crackled with gunfire. Father Genadrios was killed in the first fusillade. The cabby stopped his car and fled...
...Bolshevik Revolution, Khrushchev leaped nimbly back into his old round of international politicking. He talked long with U.S. Columnist Walter Lippmann, told a Brazilian journalist "we could supply Soviet machines and specialists to Brazil." In his most formal black hat he welcomed Polish Communist Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka at the rainswept Byelorussian station for an important party visit. But his flashing feat of the week was bringing off an international propaganda coup in the Arab Middle East...
...plane screamed down a 7,000-ft. runway and off to Baltimore, where it took aboard 41 notables (including Pan Am President Juan Trippe and 33 newspaper and magazine executives) for a junket to Brussels. Just seven hours and 19 minutes after leaving Baltimore, it landed on the rainswept runway at Brussels' Melsbroek Airport. Average speed: 540 m.p.h...
Onto the playing fields and down to the rainswept rivers of England marched a pride of U.S. athletes. Most of them might as well have stayed home. Items...
...other matter is football. '58 had heard all sorts of rude things about Harvard football before it entered, and after UMass dumped the Crimson in 1954, is was ready to believe them. But then three big wins, over Princeton and Yale (13 to 9 in a thriller in a rainswept Stadium) in 1954, and over Princeton in 1955 made things look better. But that rainy, 7-6 victory over the Tigers was the last Big Three victory '58 would witness as undergraduates...