This conjunction comes before rain, heat & gloom of night in the USPS credo
[DOC] [TLE] As We Recall - National Agricultural Statistics Service - US ... [PAR] before release time the Secretary of Agriculture is admitted to the *'lock-up," looks 
over the report, signs ..... amidst the gathering gloom of prospective heavy fall 
marketings of pigs, and .... Appleby considered the result a 'dead heat' with 
nothing decided, ...... what comes of asking somebody to pray for rain that doesn't 
know.