Word: downpour
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Secondly, maybe Sections 10 through 13 should consider the tennis ball barrages to be history. If nothing is thrown on the ice, maybe the monkey's of this world won't become unnecessarily inspired. A downpour of "Sieves" is probably more devastating to a goalie's psyche, anyway. And it's a whole lot safer...
...excitement of masses of people in a huge flux-the same kind of excitement one finds in Reds or which David Lean Created in. say. Lawrence of Arabia or Doctor Zhivago is present in abundance and animates Gandhi. Long shots of a crowd standing with umbrellas in a heavy downpour chanting for Gandhi or of converging columns of people marching behind the Mahatma as he marches to the sea to defy the government drive in this impression convincingly...
...prepared to take the salute from the Brigade of Guards-their numbers depleted in service to Her Majesty in the South Atlantic-the skies opened up. The Queen's rain was mercifully short, and while it fell, Elizabeth valiantly attempted to maintain a regal posture. But as the downpour quickened, she dropped-just for a moment, mind you-her traditionally unflappable composure. Her grimace bespoke the self-evident plea: a brolly! A brolly! My kingdom for a brolly...
...been able to interrupt of otherwise disrupt a Harvard Commencement. But the one time in recent years when stormy weather did force the ceremonies inside Sanders Theater where they were held from 1876 through 1915--there were more things for University officials to worry about than an early June downpour. The year was 1968, and it was, Anderson says, "the start of student dissent," when Harvard students protested the appearance of Shah Muhammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran, whose speech was interrupted several times in an overcrowded Sanders...
...staging as has ever been attempted by a regional theater. The playwright's River Orb has been regurgitated into a 20,000-gal. tank of water; a 24-ft. cabin cruiser has been assembled inside; and a huge sprinkler system has been installed to re-create a summer downpour. Ayckbourn has directed, as he did in Scarborough, and his players move as effortlessly as their roles-and their wayward craft-will allow...