Word: downpour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lena Bloom, over at the county seat, who turned about six feet of her downspout up so the rainwater runs into a washtub that sets on a barrel, and if there is a light shower she invariably gets enough in the tub to do a washing, but a heavy downpour will not only fill the tub but will overflow and fill the barrel. . . . With the downspout lifted, her supply is ample although she has some trouble getting the washtub, when it is full, down off the barrel. 'I slop out a lot,' says Lena." "Somebody Loses." The characters...
...field, the game was faster, more rugged than ever (see SPORT). The fans had something to see. In Yale's Bowl, filled (except for a few seats) for the first time since 1937, about 65,000 sat through drizzle and downpour and gave their loudest, longest cheers to a Negro fullback. At South Bend, 55,452 swarmed over the town-including many loyal Notre Dame buffs who had never got beyond high school but would travel hundreds of miles to see "their team." Said one from Massachusetts: "Looks like the old days, only more...
...rumor grew all the next day. The downpour stopped, as dramatically as it had begun, shortly after dawn. Downtown streets were free of water by noon. The sun came out. San Antonio still waited tensely. Then the suspense ended. The sudden storm had killed six people, made 5,000 temporarily homeless, caused $5,000,000 in damages. But the dam, with the water from a mile-long lake lapping up within six feet of its rim, stood firm...
Yesterday. Dudley and Adams postponed their game for lack of participants. All contests were rained out Tuesday as a heavy downpour halted the Dudley-Lowell baseball game at the end of the third inning, and stopped a softball contest between Leverett and Kirkland...
CLEVELAND-Purple Heart hero Lloyd Mangrum played calmly through a violent downpour today to win the National Open golf championship in a second playoff with Byron Nelson and Vic Ghezzi...