Word: downpours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weather made driving dangerous all Saturday night. Gale winds blew from six to nine p.m., dropping to strong just after nine when the real downpour began. An inch and a half fell during the evening...
G.I.s, muffled in parkas, working in a slashing downpour to convert their flapping tents into wooden hutments...
...naval officer, the president of the Mormon Church, a pink-trousered lady from Pakistan and a bearded artist in a bright green suit were just a few of those among whom the Queen strolled, chatting pleasantly and shaking hands at an average of once every 15 seconds. Even a downpour of rain which sent many guests scuttling into the palace failed to deter her. Protected by an umbrella held by a lady-in-waiting, and preceded by a dignified spearhead of ice-breaking courtiers, Queen Elizabeth II went right on doing her democratic duty. "It is all "very interesting," murmured...
...Superforts, already loaded up, glistened dully through the downpour as the crews jogged out for the preflight check. In their orange baseball caps, the crews themselves glistened dully, too. Most of them were reserves, and like their planes they were ten years older than in the glamour days of World War II. There was little of the "tiger" (Korea equivalent for "eager beaver") about them. They were cool, experienced, careful, sometimes sardonic. They liked to call themselves the "Christmas help," and they liked to point out that the average B-29 in the outfit was carrying the fathers...
...superb cast is colored with this fatal splendor, as the drama is played out among a group of characters whose violent passions spend themselves like a quick tropical downpour. Their story surges and eddies through a picture that matches the passion and profusion of Conrad's prose...