Word: downpours
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fischbein, 34, vice president and assistant general manager of the New York Post. A week ago last Sunday, the couple left a restaurant in the Bucks County resort town of New Hope, Pa. It was 7:15 p.m., and they had not been drinking. Moments later, in a heavy downpour, Fischbein apparently mistook a poorly marked towpath for the restaurant parking-lot exit. His rented station wagon tumbled some 15 feet into the water-and mud-filled Delaware Canal, coming to rest upside down. When the car was discovered four hours later, Fischbein was still strapped behind the wheel...
Precipitating the downpour was a study commissioned by Presidential Science Adviser George Keyworth II. The White House panel bluntly called for remedial action even if some technical questions about acid rain were still unanswered. "If we take the conservative point of view that we must wait until the scientific knowledge is definitive," said the panel, "the accumulated deposition [of acid rain] and damaged environment may reach the point of 'irreversibility...
...heavens have rarely responded. In the space of six weeks, 100 of the 8,000 inhabitants of the town of Solankiya died of malnutrition and other drought-related diseases. Even when rain does fall, it comes in the wrong place at the wrong time. A sudden torrential downpour in the western state of Gujarat last week caused raging floods that claimed more than 800 lives. Although this year's monsoons have begun, U.S. experts are predicting major droughts during the next two years. In all, the government estimates that more than 250 million Indians are seriously affected...
Brilliant sunshine gave way to rain later in the day when the Pope reached Katowice, a steel-producing city in the Upper Silesian coal-mining region. The heavy downpour did little to dampen the spirit of the crowd of 1.2 million that was waiting for John Paul under a forest of umbrellas in a vacant airfield outside the city. When the Silesians spotted the Pope stepping from the papal helicopter, they let loose with a boisterous chorus of Sto Lat (May You Live a Hundred Years), all but drowning out a brass band of black-suited miners...
Watson's visit itself did not do much to help the industrialist distinguish himself from his dusty-haired namesake: Just moments after he began, a powerful downpour sent most of the audience fleeing for cover...