Word: downpour
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...that is normal. The Japanese push their exports-motorcycles, autos, microwave ovens, optics-to the limits that their markets can bear. There is even a name for it-shuchu gou, literally "localized downpour...
...neat rows, roped to the tarmac to brace against the wind. A flag flapped and clanked above us. Nothing stirred on the runway, or in our parking lot, or by the hangars. We hoisted our packs, draped our ponchos over them and set off through what had become a downpour to find St. Thomas...
Torrential rains turned much of Zaïre's mineral-rich Shaba region (formerly Katanga province) into a knee-deep quagmire last week. The downpour further obscured the mysterious war being waged between about 2,000 invaders from neighboring Angola (TIME, March 28) and the forces of Zaïre's autocratic President Mobutu Sese Seko. After launching a few pinprick air raids, Mobutu's Army Chief of Staff Bumba Moaso Djogi claimed that the intruders were in retreat, "abandoning thousands of corpses" behind them...
...summer day in 1806 a band of pious students at Williams College got caught in a thundershower, huddled under a haystack to keep dry and held a prayer meeting. By the time the downpour ceased they had vowed to carry the Christian message overseas. One of them eventually became a pioneer evangelist to India while others helped create the U.S.'s first two foreign mission boards...
...next scheduled slot was Brown, which at first glance seemed to be a cakewalk, as Harvard swept the meet, finishing 1-2-3-4. But the judges thundered again, disqualifying five Crimson runners who stripped off their shirts during the downpour that marred the race, knocked the score from a comfortable 19-38 to a razor-edge...