Word: downpour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tornado. Out of a darkened sky in Kansas swept a savage downpour of rain. In eastern Kansas City the rain suddenly became a sky-high funnel, black-dirty, twisting, swerving, diving, hopping with aimless, deadly ferocity. By the time men yelled "Tornado!" the wind was past. Three people were killed, at least 135 others injured more or less critically. Houses were leveled, a newly built church converted into rubble, trees, streets, power lines ripped and broken. Men & women who knew the dreaded roaring noise threw their children to the floor, themselves on top of the children, as their roofs were...
This outcome did not necessarily mean that Coach Clark Shaughnessy's Stanford Indians were slipping. Nor did it necessarily mean that Coach Alonzo Stiner's Oregon State team had developed unexpected strength. The game was played in a downpour of rain-such a downpour that running, kicking, passing, handling the ball and above all the nice timing required for the operation of Stanford's T formation, were all matters of luck. The stage for the Beaver touchdown was set by a Stanford fumble on the 14-yd. line...
...when most crops were well advanced, 1941's drought caught the seeds before they had a chance to start growing. At week's end clouds hovered over the East, here & there dropping a thin, misty rain. But for many a farmer the damage was done: even a downpour would be too late...
HANOVER, N.H.-The Dartmouth College ski team maintained a slim lead over the University of New Hampshire skiiers today after the first two events of the college's 31st annual Winter Carnival were reeled off in a downpour of rain...
...rain had become a downpour. The Presidential yacht Potomac was tied up at the Severn Basin; while midshipmen and officers snapped to attention, the Executive flag broke out from the foremast, the President was piped over the side. On the King George V arrangements were made for the President to come aboard; but the Potomac only circled the huge battleship, slowly, to give the President a good look. A guard of honor of Royal Marines stood at present arms on deck and the band played The Star-Spangled Banner. A launch carried Lord and Lady Halifax from the King George...