Word: downpours
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Midway through the first half, a torrential downpour coupled with biting cold wind forced many of the spectators to seek shelter behind a nearby van or port-o-potty. Those who stayed witnessed Fritz’s goal, scored at the height of the downpour...
...have such options of ingestibles - I am not complaining; our stomachs have, by the standards of most of human history, died and gone to a heaven that they scarcely deserve - why are we forced to shop for them under a steady downpour of moronic canned music? This horrible amenity punishes the senses with throbbing, moaning, whining agitations of the stupidest trailer trashiness that venality can distill...
...committee is being formed to re-examine the conclusions of the old committee. Everyone knows that Harvard committees have all the effectiveness of a sieve in a downpour, even when they weren’t formed to rehash the “work” of another committee. In other words: none. According to Harvard, committees are appointed to create a façade of action and to delay decisions...
...student held a radio protected from the downpour with a large black plastic bag. A Valentine's Day mix--featuring Nat King Cole and the Beatles--provided cheerful background music...
Wahid didn't need a soothsayer to read the rumbles of Merapi: he only had to look as far as Jakarta's parliament for the source of his woes. While thousands of demonstrators?some for Wahid, but most against him?bellowed at one another under a torrential downpour, the scene inside parliament was solidly against the President. His opponents and fairweather political allies censured Wahid last Thursday for his alleged involvement in two corruption scandals, involving a total of more than $6 million. That may seem like small change compared with the billions that vanished from government coffers during...