Word: cloudburst
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...wrack of a June cloudburst, the "Sacred Cow" swooped down onto Orly airport near Paris. As Jimmy Byrnes led his party down the ramp, he looked his 68 years. He was here for Paris II-the third attempt of the Big Four's foreign ministers to lay a basis for World War II peace treaties, and the look on his face said "three times...
...frustrate their attempt to better themselves. They get a derelict house into shape, desperately watch one of their children wither under pellagra, raise a crop they can be proud of, get drunk at a wedding in town, reassemble the pitiful remnants of their year's work after a cloudburst, and come into the fall of the year in a resolute, proud, sad knowledge of their lives which is granted to few except farmers...
...standing committee of the Kuomintang was ready. Four and a half hours after Lin Sen's death, while a midsummer cloudburst spent its strength over Chungking, the committee chose a successor. Thus, finally, Chiang Kaishek, generalissimo of all the Chinese armies, master of a dozen other titles, assumed the title most in keeping with his activities: Acting President of the National Government...
Several spurts of power netted the win which closed the Crimson's season with a .500 average. The Red and White scored first, but Angle, who scored four point. Harvard then traded goals until the end of the half, which closed with a sudden cloudburst...
...Cloudburst? Whatever is done for towns like Meadville, plants like Talon, must be done quickly, and nobody expected it to be done in time to save all from hardship. At Batavia, N.Y., Doehler Die Casting Co. expected to lay off 200 of its 700 employes soon; Massey-Harris Co. (farm implements) would have to lay off 500 of its 900 within two months unless it got more pig iron; E. N. Rowell Co. (paper boxes; 350 workers) would have to shut down altogether unless it got more paperboard. In Muskegon, Mich., a big Norge Refrigerator plant with 3,400 employes...