Word: showered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before the doors, closed on the big silver and red R.C.A.F. transport, the crowd gave three cheers and a tiger. The four propellers blew back a shower of powdery snow; the plane taxied out to position and roared down the runway. Next day St. Laurent was in London for lunch and a short talk with Prime Minister Churchill. This week he was scheduled to go on to Paris and Bonn, visit Canadian army and air force bases, then continue the six week, 30,000-mile tour that will take him to Rome, Karachi, New Delhi, Colombo, Jakarta, Manila, Seoul...
Three University astronomers announced to a Nashville, Tenn., astronomical meeting that they have discovered a new variety of meteor shower...
...folder, read and talked for an hour and a half. Whatever it was he said, it made a good impression: his audience, consisting of the President, four Cabinet members, the Chiefs of Staff and other top officials, clapped. Never before had the NSC's members burst into a shower of applause...
...ended, there was no doubt that the economic weather was changing. But what was it changing to? Did the clouds mean a mere shower or a furious storm...
Most businessmen, looking at their own sales and order charts, saw only a shower. Even those who had once talked loudly of depression now spoke of a "rolling readjustment," a "mild recession" or a "lull." The new cliché was "let's be realistic." Being "realistic" meant a drop, at most, in the gross national product of 5% to 10% (or back to about the level of 1952) and a rise in unemployment to 3,500,000. But such "realism" did not necessarily mean that the economy would be much shaken...