Word: downpour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wool-Hats. Then came an unprecedented omen. Georgia politicos say that "the sun never sets on England and the rain never falls on Talmadge." But now, as the Governor turned the first page, rain fell in torrents. Talmadge threw away his melting manuscript, improvised under an umbrella in the downpour for 20 minutes, finally gave...
...knack of being breathless, exciting even when describing the hills behind the Rose Bowl, and the fans loved him. At one World Series game, delayed by rain, he cheerfully draped his raincoat over himself and the mike and ad-libbed for 60 minutes in a downpour. Twenty-five million people heard him describe the Tunney-Dempsey long count, the broadcast he was proudest...
...contents of a German-owned bookstore in the street, kindling them with the cry: "Hitler isn't the only one who can burn books." Where steel shutters halted the mob, it demanded the hoisting of the Brazilian flag. Police intervention was languid. When in the late afternoon a downpour scattered the crowds, nervous Brazilians quoted their old saw: "Deus é Brasileiro" (God is Brazilian). But next day, although further rioting in Rio was stopped, provincial mobs were permitted a similar anti-Axis field...
Through the rain a company of battle-seasoned Philippine Scouts slopped up toward the Bataan front, rifles aslant. Against the downpour they held their heads high. They had a reason. Leading them, just out of the hospital and headed for more Japs, was their company commander, Captain Arthur Wermuth of Chicago, the One-Man Army of Bataan (TIME...
Officers read Winston Churchill's order of the day to small detachments of troops scattered across the desert-to men standing under a downpour in the darkness of a desert night, split repeatedly by furious lightning...