Word: downpour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under a steady downpour, several hundred mourners chanted and carried posters along the mile-and-a-half trek to a city-owned cemetery...
...studies pile up (154 to date), and federal money pours in, Deep Tunnel just keeps tunneling deeper. Meanwhile, housewives in one Chicago suburb resorted to their own program to keep the sewers from flooding: they covered the inlets with worn-out throw rugs during a downpour. Worked fine...
...quickly as the joy had erupted, disaster struck back. After a torrential downpour held up the races for 15 minutes, the freshmen heavies embarked on the Grand Finale. As the boats came into the view of the crowd gathered at the home stretch, Yale held about a half-length lead on Harvard and Northeastern. With just 400 meters to go and the boats in an all-out sprint to the flag, the Harvard eight suddenly stopped dead, Cornell and Wisconsin whisking past like a pair of flashes...
When the Ivy League Championship and NCAA Qualifying tournaments were played at Yale last year, it also rained, and the Crimson fared poorly. On Saturday, the linksters once again succumbed to the combination of downpour and architect Charles Blair MacDonald's penal layout...
...Crimson handled Colgate easily, but lost by five to Cornell when a superlatively skilled tailback named Joe Holland punished the Harvard defense for 244 yards in the customary Cornell game downpour...