Word: downpours
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...dozen pitched along Rafah's main street. It has been his home since last month, when Israeli troops bulldozed his house in Block O, the section of the refugee camp next to Termite. With a rake, Najjar gathers cigarette butts and candy wrappers swept into the tent by the downpour of the past few hours. "It's cold in here, isn't it?" he says...
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...