Word: cloudburst
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...strains of "Up the Street" were swelling across to the Memorial Church when the cloudburst struck with a rush and roar that sent the gaily-dressed listeners scurrying for the nearest cover...
...South, where freakish twisters were still coursing along the Alabama-Mississippi boundary and last week killed ten people and wrecked hundreds of houses, driving rains brought most creeks and rivers to flood stage, some beyond. Onto Whitestone Mountain in northwest Georgia descended a mighty cloudburst that sounded like Niagara, rushed down to destroy the tiny quarry town of Whitestone (pop. 200), where a family of 13 were drowned in one house...
...beautiful artists' model, his frigid, hypochondriac wife, his board of directors, particularly by a multimillionaire department-store owner whose business contributes a dozen more stories. The beautiful, shanty Irish gold digger who feeds Greg's story is not so much a tributary as a cloudburst. Corinne's story runs small but fairly clear until it widens muddily when she gets mixed up with a homosexual stage designer. The narrative stream fed by the greatest number of branches, and the only one fit for navigation or swimming, is the one carrying Professor Gay Coleman's story...
...backslid in his thoughts about pretty 12-year-old Buckskin's daughter, began to have his doubts about mission morality. In this tormented state he set off to unburden himself to Mr. Butler. Instead he unburdened himself to a strange Indian girl in an empty cabin during a cloudburst. Before the night was over Myron had backslid as far as he could go. But when he offered to marry her she said he was too mixed-up in his mind to make a husband. By the time she changed her tune. Myron had finally made peace with his Navajo...
...Nordic cheers of their vast open-air audience nearly 1,000,000 of whom were Germans who had got up at 7 a.m. to march and drill all day in their Nazi organizations before they took their stand to hear the speeches at 7 p.m. As a furious cloudburst came down Mussolini made a quick remark to Hitler who gestured and a rainproof was at once thrown about the shoulders of each Dictator, although their glitteringly apparalled staffs continued to get soaked...