Word: downpour
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More than 2000 protestors soggy from a steady downpour clustered outside the double fence separating them from the field, chanting, "Freedom yes, apartheid no!" to demonstrate their opposition to South Africa's policies of racial segregation. About 300 fans watched the game from the stands inside the fence...
...Crimson tracksters were hardly flashing in the torrential downpour yesterday in New Haven, but they did dash the Elis' hopes for an upset, defeating the Blue soundly. 117-46, and maintaining an undefeated record for the season...
...addition to the hard-hitting Maine batters and the ever-present threat of a late-afternoon downpour, the Crimson had to contend with some questionable officiating during yesterday's twinbill. In both games, the umpires called apparently safe Harvard baserunners out at second and the strike zone was more suited to Nancy Lopez-Melton's swing than that of an intercollegiate softball player...
...monsignor looked at the cold downpour that greeted Pope John Paul II upon his arrival at the Cologne airport Nov. 15 and said lightheartedly, "Luther's revenge at last." The chill was more than meteorological. The land of Martin Luther offered John Paul the coolest reception...
...opened the door leading outside, I was shocked at being greeted by a grey sky and a fierce downpour of rain. A couple was passing by, and, remembering that I am to act like a "young man," I zipped my jacket, shoved the book under my arm and my hands into my pockets, tucked my head under and expressionlessly marched off into the seeminly perpetual shower..but oh how I wanted to cry! --L. Gerome Smith...