Word: cloudbursts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harbison and the orchestra appeared to be most at their ease in the lively outer movements, where their energy and exuberance made an especially happy effect; the Andante seemed a bit pallid. But in the Allegro and the concluding "La Tempesta" (Haydn's cloudburst is Austrian naivete and gentility compared with Vivaldi's) they produced a sound richer and larger than the orchestra's numbers suggest. An even bigger sound could be heard in the substantial D minor piano concerto of Bach, in which the sonority of the opening unison belied the fact that the forces involved really amounted...
...month-long crusade in Melbourne, Australia, Evangelist Billy Graham decided that God and Graham had done it again: "Both in total attendance and responses, this has surpassed any crusade of similar length." The staid city, which had all but run Evangelist Oral Roberts out of town in 1956, bucked cloudburst and heat wave to turn out some 714,000 strong for Graham's meetings in the Sydney Myer Music Bowl, the West Melbourne Stadium and the Melbourne Show Grounds, and more than 26,400 made "decisions for Christ...
Last month an unprecedented cloudburst filled Bicycle Lake to the depth of 18 inches in its deepest place. For a while the lake was a saucer of muddy water. Then, Army tank men from nearby Camp Irwin saw the water come to life, seething with millions of wiggly things. They found it swarming with four kinds of shrimp, some of which swam upside down. Others had hard, smooth shells and looked like tiny clams...
...potato famine of the 18405; 4) the Great Trek of the Boers from Cape Town to the fertile valleys of the interior; 5) the war dance of 3,000 Zulus and their attack on a wagon ring; 6) a savage fight between two men armed with bullwhips; 7) a cloudburst, during which a huge tree is felled by lightning; 8) the gruesome amputation of a leg; 9) another formal ball, this time in a South African mansion; 10) a battle royal in a mining town...
Coach Lloyd Jordan switched practice emphasis to offensive play yesterday as the varsity squad ran through an extensive scrimmage during an afternoon cloudburst...