Word: downpour
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...benefit concert for Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, a black middleweight boxer imprisoned since 1966 for a murder that he claims he did not commit. "You people out there, you have the connection and the complexion to get the protection," quoth Ah before surrendering the stage to a four-hour musical downpour that starred Bob Dylan, sounding like the old adenoidal prince of protest when he delivered his new song, Hurricane. Also on hand: Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Ronee Blakley and Roberta Flack. Sixty miles away in the Clinton, N.J., Correctional Institution, Carter listened to the concert by telephone-and continued...
...steady and sometimes sleeting downpour that filled the field with puddles and slowed the pace of the game partially accounted for the lack of scoring. At one point in the second half, Bullard's soft volley shot off Dave Eaton's cross stopped dead in a puddle on the goal line before a Yale fullback cleared the ball...
Harvard's strong freshman teams journeyed to New Haven yesterday hoping to end their seasons on a bright note against Yale in a prelude to The Game. Unfortunately, the Elis and a continual downpour conspired to dampen their spirits, as the football team lost, 10-3, and the soccer squad bowed, 3-1, to Yale's JV team...
Early in the week, the weather seemed to cooperate in cooling things off a bit. The first rain of autumn, a torrential downpour, inundated streets, chasing snipers to shelter and for a short time, at least, swallowing the sound of the guns. "God has sent his rain to put out the fire," announced Radio Lebanon's Akhawi during one broadcast. "Pray that it will also wash our hearts." It did not, unfortunately...
Injured quarterback Mike Brait went to the air only 11 times in leading Dartmouth to a ground victory over Penn 19-14 in a downpour at Hanover, N.H. Roland Griggs ran for one Big Green touchdown and Tom Fleming caught the other following his 46 yard punt return to the Penn four-yard line...