Word: downpour
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...possessed him, loathing for the place, for the climate, for his work which he saw as a mere drop in this bottomless bucket of poverty, superstition and disease. . . . He watched rain drench the road and knew that everywhere humble people were praising the Lord as they paddled through the downpour. . . . But he was incapable of sharing in the jubilation of. these god-infested folk-their joys and their griefs were on too vast a scale for his participation...
...camp Hope did not get to-so to catch his performance 600 men tramped ten miles across the moors, could not get within earshot, started tramping back again. After the show Hope heard about them, tossed his gang into jeeps, overtook the hikers and, in a drenching downpour, clowned for 40 minutes...
...Downpour. Sunday morning Copenhagen woke before dawn to the sound of firing from the port. Denmark's tiny Navy was committing suicide. Some were trying to escape to Sweden, some were scuttled by their crews where they lay. German planes caught and sank at least one that fled, but nine reached Sweden. There was a skirmish at the Royal Barracks. Danes and Germans fell in a clash at the Amalienborg, where some of the royal family watched and waited. The battle was heard in Sweden, 20 miles across the Ore Sund...
Have you ever felt, after a long summer drought, the sweet, cool, delicious droplets of the first rain? It's happened Wednesday as 457 little droplets of femininity landed in Wellesley College to start their freshman year. After that comes the heavy downpour, like nectar on the sweated brow. That happens today as Wellesley's upperclass nectarines register for the fall term...
...miles, had seen more war front than most U.S. soldiers. He had ripped through comedy routines before 8 a.m. and hours after dark. One show he did in Papuan jungle grass up to his hips, six minutes' march from Jap positions; another went on in a driving downpour at Milne Bay, New Guinea...