Word: downpouring
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...hope that that goal created quickly became dashed. Almost metaphorically, it began to downpour during the second half...
Since Elisha had just dispatched the heir apparent of the nation's seventh largest company, his attempt to avoid explaining the dismissal was akin to a man trying dodge raindrops in a downpour. Questioned persistently, he finally said Walter lacked "intellectual leadership," then paraphrased Mark Twain: "The difference between president and vice president is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." Within hours, Walter's attorney, Bob Barnett, was holed up with AT&T executives, negotiating a golden goodbye. Walter is owed some $25.8 million under the terms of his contract...
...your story about Taylor, you said, "His songs are as familiar and comfortable as old flannel shirts and just about as exciting." Really? Next time you see a sold-out performance with an audience that has no problem in sitting through a downpour or 100[degree] heat to listen to Taylor, you might try to get closer to one of the fans. This man continues to draw record crowds whose members vary greatly in age; his talents are constantly being rediscovered by new generations with the release of each fresh album. I am proud that Taylor continues to walk onto...
...have refined his idiom, but he rarely transcends it. His songs are as familiar and comfortable as old flannel shirts and just about as exciting. Even so he continues to please. Last month a large outdoor crowd at the New Orleans' Jazz and Heritage Festival sat through a downpour to listen as he played new tunes and old favorites. For aging boomers in particular, he mirrors their own misadventures with drugs, marriage and parenthood. For many of them, he is family...
...apparent from the windy downpour that greeted the team upon its arrival in normally tranquil Hanover that the afternoon was going to be a long one. But the downpour was no match for the cold water Dartmouth dumped on Harvard...