Word: downpour
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This time it wasn't an earthquake or wildfires that ravaged California, but simple rain -- a merciless deluge. The downpour unleashed treacherous floods and mud slides up and down the state, killing 11 people, displacing thousands from their homes and wreaking property damage in the hundreds of millions of dollars...
Islamic militants denounced P.L.O. chief Yasser Arafat as an Israeli collaborator and pushed him out the back door of a Gaza City mosque into a downpour as he tried to join a funeral service. Shouting "Get out of here, Arafat, get out!," the angry crowd forced him to leave the ceremony for Hani Abed, an Islamic Jihad activist who was killed in a car bombing that many Gazans blame on Israel...
...flood struck with sudden brutality. In one of the most tragic episodes, Catherine and Forrest Langlinais's car slipped into 12 ft. of water in Chambers County in the midst of a torrential downpour. As the vehicle came to a stop, the father grabbed his two-year-old son and his baby, who was born only two months ago. Attempting to scramble to safety on the roof of the car, he lost his grip on the infant, who immediately disappeared in the swirling water; the child's body was found Wednesday...
...afternoon ended damply. Around 4 p.m. in the afternoon, the same time major races started, it began to rain. Traffic congestion and panic were the immediate results of the downpour, as cars poured out of a newly sodden Cambridge
While yesterday's relentless rainstorm evoked exasperation and annoyance among many a drenched Harvard student, for first-year Giselle A. Corsa '98 the downpour was strangely comforting...