Word: downpouring
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...thousand, two hundred and fifty was the official tally at last Saturday's Stadium tilt between Harvard and Massachusetts--and a generous estimate at best. The combination of a steady downpour, a late-season non-conference game and a slumping Crimson squad (2-6 overall after falling to the Minutemen, 17-7) kept fans away in droves...
That, if anything, was an understatement. Cambridge awoke Saturday morning to a steady drizzle which turned, by game-time, into a steady rain. At times during the contest, the precipitation bordered on a downpour. On the increasingly swampy field, 22 wet, muddy and generally unhappy football players slogged it out in a meaningless non-conference game...
Princeton won a ho-hum error-fest in the heart of New Jersey, slipping in two touchdowns among a downpour of fumbles, miscues and general ineptitude...
From a wide alleyway where six colts and a mule have withstood an early downpour, Jay, a lanky cowboy from northern Wyoming, turns a wild-eyed sorrel horse into the corral where Ray is waiting on his gray mare. The colt's body is rigid, and he lets out the kind of snorts that make a cowboy take a deep seat on frosty mornings. "A horse has a mind," Rays says, watching the colt. "He gets scared and bold, sure and unsure, sick and well. He says, 'Maybe. I don't know. All right . . .' and too often...
...script called for Anderson, Farmer and the other colonials to lose, and they did (at Greenfield Village, the Americans win on Sundays). But casualties were unusually light. Did an afternoon downpour have anything to do with this? Yes, admitted an insider. Authenticity is fine, but getting your uniform clean again is pure hell after you have expired for your country on muddy ground...