Word: downpour
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Through all the downpour, Hill and Gendebein and their Ferrari managed to stay out of trouble, and slowly they worked into the lead. At the end, none of the competition was really close. Hill finished the race after covering 2,549 miles in 24 hours at an average speed of 106.21 m.p.h. He had beaten the second-place Aston Martin by 100 miles. If the worst weather and the worst track conditions in the memory of Le Mans veterans had kept him from a speed record, Phil Hill had still set a record with which he was more than satisfied...
...light rain grew to a downpour during the second half, the Princeton attack deluged the varsity cage with eight goals. Most of them were the result of deliberate patterns, and the Crimson was fairly lucky to escape with even that amount of damage...
...About East Cupcake?" The weather clouded, and travelers brought tales that Jack Paar's Tonight show, on location at a Miami Beach hotel, was laying eggs in a heavy downpour. Little crises piled up. Slight (130 Ibs.) Actor Don Knotts, who plays the nervous type in Allen's "Man in the Street" feature, passed out in the coffee shop; flown down from the U.S., his doctor diagnosed "nervous exhaustion." Bearded Orchestra Leader Skitch Henderson created consternation at Havana's CMQ when he turned up in sweater and denims resembling a Cuban revolutionary's getup...
...best humorous writing turns on a man's well-intentioned efforts to accomplish something-from assembling a do-it-yourself barbecue pit to catching a taxi in a downpour-and the fun lies in his frustration. Purdy uses much the same theme, but his purpose is to reveal the horror underlying the humor. The father who gets kicked in the groin has been trying to make up to his small son for his orphaned state. The husband and wife who belabor each other seem right off the burlesque stage, but the story's aim is to expose...
...first struck by the lushness of the tropics and the tepid warmth of the climate punctuated daily with tropical downpour--until the luxuriance creates a sort of ennui...