Word: downpour
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...city voters, his strongest competition was able Lynn U. Stambaugh, international-minded Fargo lawyer and onetime National Commander of the American Legion. But most of North Dakota's decisive rural vote was slated to go to Congressman Usher L. Burdick, 65, an isolationist who had learned better. The downpour which kept farmers from the polls was rain from heaven to Gerald Nye, who gathered in 38,082 votes. Stambaugh, contrary to most North Dakota dopesters, made a surprisingly strong race; he got 37,129 votes. Burdick, stuck in the deep sludge, got 34,997. Unless North Dakota...
...possessed him, loathing for the place, for the climate, for his work which he saw as a mere drop in this bottomless bucket of poverty, superstition and disease. . . . He watched rain drench the road and knew that everywhere humble people were praising the Lord as they paddled through the downpour. . . . But he was incapable of sharing in the jubilation of. these god-infested folk-their joys and their griefs were on too vast a scale for his participation...
...camp Hope did not get to-so to catch his performance 600 men tramped ten miles across the moors, could not get within earshot, started tramping back again. After the show Hope heard about them, tossed his gang into jeeps, overtook the hikers and, in a drenching downpour, clowned for 40 minutes...
...Downpour. Sunday morning Copenhagen woke before dawn to the sound of firing from the port. Denmark's tiny Navy was committing suicide. Some were trying to escape to Sweden, some were scuttled by their crews where they lay. German planes caught and sank at least one that fled, but nine reached Sweden. There was a skirmish at the Royal Barracks. Danes and Germans fell in a clash at the Amalienborg, where some of the royal family watched and waited. The battle was heard in Sweden, 20 miles across the Ore Sund...
Have you ever felt, after a long summer drought, the sweet, cool, delicious droplets of the first rain? It's happened Wednesday as 457 little droplets of femininity landed in Wellesley College to start their freshman year. After that comes the heavy downpour, like nectar on the sweated brow. That happens today as Wellesley's upperclass nectarines register for the fall term...