Word: hailstorm
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...street bursting into flames. Embers were falling and setting bushes and trees on fire. I said to myself, I can't [stay here]. A tree might fall on the car and trap everybody. So I slammed the door and ran to the car. I got hit by a hailstorm of flaming embers. They burned my arms, my neck and my legs. By then there were fires everywhere on the street. I couldn't see five feet in front of me. My wife [got into her car] and yelled that she'd meet me at work...
...easy to classify Broza as a folk singer, but that label is ultimately too restrictive. He sees the guitar not as a piece of machinery, but as a living body that can produce music in varied and frequently surprising ways. Broza opened the set with a hailstorm of frenzied flamenco-like sequences that rose and fell in intensity and speed. His musical relationship with flamenco is complex and profound (Broza spent much of his childhood in Spain), with even his gravelly voice bearing a striking resemblance to that of Gipsy Kings front man Nicolas Reyes...
There are some lefty aspects: You don't choose what the farmer grows. He does. You might get lettuce one week and then--if, say, a hailstorm hits the lettuce patch--none for several weeks after. Also, you're locked into a fixed amount of food each week, so if you don't feel like cooking for a couple nights in a row, you feel guilty. A farmer sweated over these beautiful ears of corn, and I'm going to throw them out so I can pick up riblets at Applebee...
...morning prayers address this past September about the morality of economics, he noted that he intended to duck the hailstorm of controversy sparked by his previous morning prayers appearance...
...back of a tricycle-wagon pedaled by her son for the 600-km trip to Beijing. She wants an investigation into the deaths of three family members, whom she claims were killed for being too inquisitive about missing disaster-relief funds granted to her village after a devastating hailstorm. In August 2002, Zhou says she walked into the civil-affairs sector of the Henan Provincial People's Court to deliver her petition, only to have a policeman punch her in the face. Months after lodging her complaint in Beijing, she finally got a written notice from the NPC petition office...