Word: downpours
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...they stroll together through the garden, they people the woods and fields with remembrances of things past; glimpses of the two as children show Giorgio even then a shy admirer of the "private pupil" Micol, while she plays the seductress in their game of communication through glances. A sudden downpour dispells the sunshine of their memories, and taking refuge in an old carriage, their mode of contact threatens to become physical. But Giorgio is too slow in making this transition from childhood innocence. Paralyzed by the enticing new light in Micol's eyes, he can only stare back embarrassedly, until...
...continuous downpour of American bombs has rendered the Indochinese countryside bare of vegetation, and has forced the peasants who survive the attacks to flee to refugee camps and urban slums...
...rally originally scheduled to be held on the Monument Grounds yesterday was forced indoors to the All Souls Church here by the ceaseless downpour. About 500 wet demonstrators filled the church--located about three miles from the Monument Grounds--to hear antiwar speakers and make plans for the next day's protests...
...post-game Slavic concert" in the Cornell stands. Sure enough, while the Harvard band ran for the warmth and security of the Band room, Cornell, in their marine trench coats, stood on the fifty-yard line and began a rendition of Sibelius 'Finlandia' in the middle of the downpour. I don't know what they played next, and neither did the rest of the Cambridge crowd which dashed for Harvard Square...
Crooked Dog Race. It is a sinister world, but less sinister than ridiculous. At one point, the hero stumbles through Stonehenge in a torrential downpour pursuing a brace of runaway greyhounds that Moggerhanger has just entered in a crooked dog race. Later he finds himself both proposing marriage and consummating it with Moggerhanger's daughter in the lavatory of an airliner high over France. As for that iron lung, it turns out to be fake...