Word: downpour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday's downpour put .9 inches of water into the Boston Weather Bureau's rain guage, but did not break any records, according to the Bureau statistician. On July 15, 2.54 inches of rain fell in a similar two-hour period...
...whose name had just been restamped on the world's maps put in a miserable week. He was nursing a cold, after having been caught in a downpour while fishing in New Jersey...
Contests scheduled for all three College nines--the Varsity, Jayvees and Freshmen--were cancelled Saturday because of the heavy weekend downpour. The Varsity's engagement with Penn will be rescheduled only if it affects the Ivy League championship at the end of the season...
While "cot-fishing crews" (four men with two flat-bottomed boats known as currachs or cots) rescued householders from upper-story windows, watchers on the hills knelt in the downpour and recited the Rosary. Confessionals and prayer-stools floated out of church doors. On the Galtee slopes above Tipperary, sheep, terrified by the mountain torrents, fled to the valley, leaving their lambs to perish. It had never happened before...
...stag parties for businessmen. Louie had a reputation for making time with what he called "pigs," but though he got this girl into the seat behind him he didn't make much time with her before she got off at Rebel Corners. By that time the first downpour had drenched the valley, the river was rising dangerously, and Sweetheart was ready to start...