Word: cloudburst
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...downpour reached its maximum drenching power between 5:50 and 6 p.m. when the rainfall amounted to approximately a quarter of an inch. At 6 p.m. the cloudburst turned into a chilly thunderstorm...
...succeeding evenings, the Voice is heard again at the same hour. It speculates on the need for 40 days & nights of rain-and a token cloudburst follows. It chides unbelievers and laggards: "Create for yourselves the miracles of kindness and goodness and peace. You are like children going to school. You have forgotten some of your lessons. I ask you to do your homework for tomorrow...
...gown, he was marching in the faculty parade around the University stadium. By 10 he was beginning his 18 minute speech, in which he warned against cutting European aid. He raced through the speech; it began to rain just as he started it, and a cloudburst sent his audience of 17,000 stampeding for shelter just as he finished...
There seemed to be not a dull moment anywhere for Maestro Ariuro Toscanini, 83, and his barnstorming NBC Symphony Orchestra. In Dallas, a cloudburst drenched 4,600 people just at concert time. Women hiked up their long evening dresses and men peeled off their shoes and socks and waded through deep puddles to get to the Fair Park Auditorium. Next day, Toscanini's son Walter conked a Los Angeles newspaper photographer with a movie camera for popping a flashbulb too close to the Maestro as they stepped off a plane...
Butcher Knife. Then the presidential train began a station-to-station run to Buffalo. Seven thousand people stayed through a violent cloudburst at Auburn, Republican Congressman John Taber's home town. They cheered lustily as Harry Truman berated Taber for using "a butcher knife and a saber and a meat ax . . . on every forward-looking program . . ." There were more crowds at Schenectady, Amsterdam, Little Falls, Utica, Rome, Oneida, Syracuse, Seneca Falls, Geneva, Rochester, and Buffalo. And there would be great crowds again this week as the President toured the Middle West. Politicos and columnists seemed puzzled by the phenomenon...