Word: downpours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...green humps of Bald Eagle Ridge. Skies turned to unspectacular grey, and as the President dressed in gold-tasseled cap and gown walked out onto the campus of Pennsylvania State University to receive an honorary doctorate of laws and address a second graduating class, it was raining-not a downpour, but a thick, unspectacular drizzle...
Along the South China coast last week, the rainy season was in full downpour...
...winds of time winnow away. But by the same token, the living can see more of today's art, good and bad. than future historians ever will. Last week the work of close to a thousand postwar artists was on view in New York City alone. The spring downpour of big survey exhibitions offered a new and broad perspective of contemporary...
Black-Eyed Susan (by A. B. Shiffrin) showed what can be achieved, with a little real effort, in the way of topnotch vulgarity. All about a young wife's seduction of a neurologist, it pawed and lipsmacked its way through a torrential downpour of double-entendres. The tone, here and there, was no worse than sniggering...
There is also the matter of tracing wayward luggage and sometimes replacing lost tickets. There was the case of two travelers, for instance, who had to get new tickets midway through a business trip. They had stopped to enjoy some duck hunting, got caught in a downpour and their tickets had disintegrated. Another traveler sheepishly explained why he needed another set of tickets: he had left the first set in his shirt pocket, tossed the shirt into the washing machine...