Word: downpour
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Triggered by moist tropical air, which the Pacific jet stream freakishly shot in from Hawaii over cool northern Califor nia, a tremendous downpour began at mid-month. The downfall deposited as much as 31.5 inches of rain by Dec. 26, melted Sierra snowpacks like a blowtorch, streamed off steep hillsides in the rugged redwood country. Swollen mountain streams burst out of the woods like furious brown snakes, swallowing topsoil and drowning animals. The Klamath, Russian, Mad, Eel, Ten Mile, Navarro and other rivers picked up speed, boiled out of gorges toward the Pacific, wrecked railroads and cut coastal U.S. Highway...
Under cover of a heavy monsoon downpour, 150 terrorists crept up to the barbed wire surrounding the jungle village of Kea in central Malaya, cut through the wire and attacked with machine guns. Quickly subduing the police, they forced the Home Guard commander to deliver up Kea's 35-gun armory, then looted the village of all transportable food. Just as they were about to leave, they called on the village headman to lead them to the house of Vegetable Farmer Chou Yin-san. Said a villager later: "The headman had to show them Chou's house. After...
...Metropoulos came off the field Saturday, so covered with mud that his big number 63 was almost illegible. "It feels great," he said simply, "to beat Princeton." It was even great enough to keep the Crimson rooters in their seats almost to a man throughout the worst downpour of the current monsoon...
...rain had in fact let up only once during the previous 24 hours, with the result that those who went to the game had resolved long before to stay until pneumonia set in. But it was at the moment when the downpour slackened that the editors of the Daily Princetonian came out to attempt distribution of a parody of the CRIMSON. That was about 6 a.m. Saturday...
...egghead) visited the open-air Herodes Atticus Theater, told friends he was praying for rain so that he could play in an indoor theater and would not have to compete with the splendor of the floodlit Acropolis and Parthenon. He had his wish. A downpour washed the first concert indoors-not before King and Cabinet Ministers were consulted on the crisis. The switch came so late that Chief Baggage Master Vincent Jacoby tried to shoulder the orchestra's harp into a bus in order to get it to the theater in time, was thrown out by the bus conductor...