Word: downpouring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard field hockey team--battling Brown in a scoreless deadlock on the artificial surface of Warner Field on the roof of the Olney Athletic Center--perhaps the rain wasn't a bad thing. After all, the Crimson had crushed Dartmouth, 2-0, in a downpour two weeks...
...disaster: "It was like hell let loose all of a sudden." Rear Admiral Sultan Ahmed, the No. 2 man in the Bangladesh government, arrived on the scene to supervise rescue efforts. The task of freeing victims from the rubble was hampered by a power failure and the incessant downpour...
...Crimson squad that played in the downpour Saturday has come a long way since its last game in the rain--a 3-0 drubbing at Northeastern...
...tropical wave that stalled and refused to move along. In three days, up to 15 in. of water spilled from the skies. In the hillside barrio of Mameyes, an impoverished community of more than 1,500 residents above the south-coast industrial city of Ponce (pop. 250,000), the downpour caused little of the flooding that afflicted lower-lying areas of the island. The 30 degrees slope on which Mameyes' wood and corrugated-tin shanties were built provided a natural sluice--first for the falling rain and then, tragically, for much of the settlement...
...Urirchar. "First came the dark and the menacing clouds. Soon the wind started whistling ominously. Then the heavy rains began to fall." At first Yakub thought with relief that the torrents might disperse the stifling heat, which can exceed 100 degrees F at this time of year. But the downpour quickly gained greater and still greater force. As the alarmed farmer walked out of his hut, he came upon his neighbors gathering in the night. There was frightened talk that Danger Signal No. 9, a cyclone warning calling for immediate evacuation, had been announced on the radio. It was news...