Word: downpour
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...commemorate its 25th anniversary and the passing of the 100,000 population mark. Parades moved down its smoke-begrimed streets (Gary has aged far beyond its years). Schoolboys drilled, bands played, horns tooted - and the mills closed for a whole day while workers of 50 nationalities made merry. A downpour bedraggled the last day of the celebration, caused a postponement of park pageants...
...Heaven," began Bishop Thomson as the first splatter of rain fell into the crowd. Before he finished the prayer the heavens had flooded the earth. The crowd broke and ran. President Hoover got soaked. Mrs. Hoover was doused as tarpaulins ballooned in the wind and admitted the downpour. The ceremony was abruptly called off. The President and his bedraggled party trudged across the dunes to motorcars which carried them to the Sequoia, which returned them to Washington. Governor Pollard promised to charge the State of Virginia with a new silk hat for the President...
...during the game there were occasional showers but as Brown went to bat for the last time the rain fell in a downpour. Play was not interrupted, however, and the Bruin's hitting streak kept on with Harvard handicapped by a wet and a slippery ball...
...hour after 12 o'clock noon, two crows, calm and collected, were waiting on the Thames ready to dip their oars, about a minute later the starter's gun barked and off they were, rowing a smooth beat, while a slowly drizzling rain gradually was turning into a heavier downpour. That was the start of the eighty-second Oxford-Cambridge boat race last Saturday on the historic Thames. The two crews were tied in the number of victories--there were 40 wins for each and one dead heat--and now these two historic colleges, rich in tradition, were...
...Oklahoma City last week, housewives took clothes in from lines, shut their windows. Industrial plants warned their firemen to be ready to bank furnaces on a moment's notice. In outlying towns men looked into the sky and cursed when a change of wind suddenly brought a downpour of fine-blown...