Word: downpour
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...We’re successfully drying everything out,” said Pamela Spitzmueller, the chief conservator for special collections in the Harvard University and College Libraries. The pipe burst was discovered by a staff member who was put on an extra shift during Saturday’s downpour to check for flooding, according to Harvard College Library spokeswoman Beth Brainard. The pipe had already been scheduled for a maintenance check, Brainard added. The library’s emergency team was on site within 10 minutes of the first report and worked throughout Saturday night moving library holdings to drier...
...Stein has described Clooney to A T: a truly decent guy who is not full of himself. A female colleague of mine was in Rome some three years ago and found herself caught in a downpour with her arms full of parcels and her umbrella blown out. Suddenly a man appeared from behind her and offered to share his umbrella. It was Clooney. He was by himself (no minders) and as soon as he heard her Australian accent, said how much he liked it Down Under. While he escorted her back to her hotel, she had quite a good conversation...
...Then it began to rain. At first a novelty, the downpour did not cease for the next two days and nights. We slept on wet tarps, our bear bags were soaked, and I had no article of dry clothing in all of my soggy backpack. I transformed from too-talkative and overeager to silently focused on survival. At the end of the third day, our leader announced that we would evacuate the area because of the danger of flooding...
Wiehl remembered broadcasting on location during a downpour...
...members of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) braved the elements to canvass for several Republican presidential candidates in New Hampshire on Saturday. After an hours-long bus ride, the students arrived in Manchester and Concord to approach local voters and drop off flyers on rain-splattered neighborhood porches. The downpour kept some students inside making rounds of calls to gauge and rally support for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and for Manchester’s Mayor Frank C. Guinta, who is running for re-election. The only voter they met face to face was the pizza delivery man, who expressed...