Word: cloudbursts
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...work had "to be abandoned about 1910, as I remember, due to a heavy cloudburst, which swept the complete little settlement into the creek and left the place in ruins...
...strength and virility of the American language comes quite as much from the aptness of its native words as from the readiness with which we adopt them. Our best Americanisms, i.e. those most vivid and descriptive, indicate their meaning without definition. Roughneck, for instance, or cloudburst or talented (the English tore their hair over that one, but they use it now) or spellbinder...
...true state of affairs outside, and then they make sundry efforts to preserve their morale. Then, it is not so much that the danger passes, as that they find that they never were really in any genuine trouble anyway. What they took for a flood was really only a cloudburst, and the hermetically sealed door and windows only served to make the room stuffy. The result of this blunder is a wave of cynicism decidedly more bitter than ever could have been the moral letdown following a period of real rather than imaginary distress...
...Uniontown, Pa., John Walchesky & family rushed from their house when lightning set it afire, rushed in again when a cloudburst put out the blaze, rushed out once more as a cyclone struck the building, wrecked...
Before the game last week, Army prayed for a little drizzle to aid in staying the famed air attack of the Illini. The resulting cloudburst proved the undoing of a favored service team. Three big games are left on the schedule this year--Harvard, Notre Dame, and Navy. Really tested only twice so far, none of these games are being taken too lightly, especially since Army has just broken even on its tests with Yale and Illinois. Harvard wants revenge for 1932 and 1933; Army wants an outlet for its fury hitherto checked. Buckler's injury is only slight...