Word: drenches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told-you-so's were voiced when May 7 rolled around and no erecting had yet begun. Bad weather provided an almost constant impediment, to say nothing of a couple of serious mishaps. Three days before the scheduled opening a downpour was still able to drench everything and everybody; certain facets of the construction were eleven days behind; and the actors had not yet even tested the stage. Failure seemed assured. At 7:30 p.m. on July 9 steamrollers were still operating and workmen were still driving stakes. But at eight o'clock the Governor and other prominent citizens arrived...
...Transport Association President Stuart G. Tipton helped to drench me drys, and it looked as if the unimpressed committee was going to shelve the bill for another year. Aerial prohibition is not only unenforceable, said Tipton, but it would seriously hurt U.S. international carriers. Their passengers do most of the drinking, and if U.S. planes went dry, many Americans would fly on foreign lines...
...final score of the rain-drench game was Harvard 21, Columbia 7, but it just might have been more. The varsity was clearly the superior team, picking up 286 total yards to Columbia's 143, and controlling the ball for 72 plays from scrimmage to 34 for Columbia...
...Guard's serried march on Waterloo, it was final; like the Light Brigade at Balaclava, it was magnificent, but not war. At 0150, little more than half an hour later, the Charge of the Demi-Brigade was over, and very few men still lived. Isabelle radioed the Drench planes: "Breakout failed. We must break communications with you. We are going to blow up everything. Fini. Repeat. Fini." The C-47s were rocked by the shock waves from exploding Isabelle. "They were enormous explosions," said one pilot later, sadly. And the Red radio crowed:'"All the enemy troops...
Bend of the River (Universal) sheds enough Technicolored blood to drench half a dozen ordinary westerns. It starts with a near-miss when Jimmy Stewart, guide of an Oregon-bound wagon train, saves Arthur Kennedy from being lynched as a horse thief. Soon they are both busy sticking knives into a raiding party of Shoshone Indians...