Word: downpour
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Peter F. Williams of Heathcote, New South Wales, Australia, located Comet 1998 P1 (Williams) by telescope on August 10, the first clear night after days of torrential downpour and strong winds that had kept the sky clouded and unobservable...
Other libraries, such as the Harvard-Yenching Library, were also affected by the downpour...
...threw much of the press corps, especially its most aggressive investigative wing, into a defensive crouch. It inspired Newt Gingrich to marvel at the President's "courage." It gave feminists an excuse for their pragmatic hypocrisy. It left Jones' mentor Susan Carpenter-McMillan standing beneath her umbrella in a downpour, saying "The angels are crying" for her client. It left a fleet of lawyers watching Jones head off to her health club in her old Mercedes and wondering if they would ever see a dime in legal fees...
Upper-class students shout welcomes to first-years outside Annenberg, despite the downpour. Now that's House spirit...
With two preliminary runs and two finals, the halfpipe riders powered through the relentless downpour, pumping up the resilient crowd that lined the course in bleachers and stood thousands deep at the bottom. In the end, Swiss rider Gian Simmen managed to edge out Norwegian Daniel Franck in the day's last run for the gold medal. American Ross Powers hung on for bronze with huge airs and rapid rotations. Germany's Nicola Thost took the first women's halfpipe gold and Norway's Stine Brun Kjeldaas picked up the silver. American Shannon Dunn slipped slightly just before...