Word: downpour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light rain grew to a downpour during the second half, the Princeton attack deluged the varsity cage with eight goals. Most of them were the result of deliberate patterns, and the Crimson was fairly lucky to escape with even that amount of damage...
...About East Cupcake?" The weather clouded, and travelers brought tales that Jack Paar's Tonight show, on location at a Miami Beach hotel, was laying eggs in a heavy downpour. Little crises piled up. Slight (130 Ibs.) Actor Don Knotts, who plays the nervous type in Allen's "Man in the Street" feature, passed out in the coffee shop; flown down from the U.S., his doctor diagnosed "nervous exhaustion." Bearded Orchestra Leader Skitch Henderson created consternation at Havana's CMQ when he turned up in sweater and denims resembling a Cuban revolutionary's getup...
...best humorous writing turns on a man's well-intentioned efforts to accomplish something-from assembling a do-it-yourself barbecue pit to catching a taxi in a downpour-and the fun lies in his frustration. Purdy uses much the same theme, but his purpose is to reveal the horror underlying the humor. The father who gets kicked in the groin has been trying to make up to his small son for his orphaned state. The husband and wife who belabor each other seem right off the burlesque stage, but the story's aim is to expose...
...first struck by the lushness of the tropics and the tepid warmth of the climate punctuated daily with tropical downpour--until the luxuriance creates a sort of ennui...
...clothes drenched by the downpour that turned Comiskey Park into a quagmire, his spirits doused by the dismal sight of his favorites limping through their second game in a row, Chicago White Sox Fan Joseph Gorman was moved to rowdy wrath. He leaned over the visitors' dugout, took careful aim and treated Yankee Manager Casey Stengel to a faceful of beer. The response was expansive. "He wasn't cheap," said Casey of the attacker. "He hit me with a full cup." The feelings on both sides of the matter were plain. The White Sox were in the process...