Word: rain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days last week, the Croatian city of Knin was drenched in a fiery rain of artillery shells, mortars and bombs. The self-styled capital of Krajina, the stronghold of nearly 200,000 rebel Serbs who seceded from Croatia in 1991, found itself the focus of a massive assault by the forces of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman. Within the first half-hour of the offensive, more than 200 shells fell on Knin. By Saturday panic had descended as well. As Croatian tanks began rolling through the streets, Knin's Serb leaders placed a last-minute call to the U.N., requesting...
Nature itself seemed deranged by the violence. Whirlwinds tore through the city. Fires jumped rivers with ease. Dark, marble-size drops of water--later called black rain--condensed off the explosion's towering smoke and fell to earth...
...past three weeks in Union, South Carolina, each day dawned blistering and dry and ended sticky. But just as word swept through court last Friday afternoon that the jury was about to come back with its sentence in the Susan Smith case, rain began to fall. And as Smith stood before the judge to learn she had been spared the death penalty, thunder rumbled. Courtroom spectators moved their gaze from defendant to windows and back again. Then, as swiftly as it had begun, the storm was over. A few minutes later, when Smith was led back to prison...
...aftermath of the U.S.-Canadian Free Trade Agreement "The Canadian prime minister was really pressuring the president to address the acid rain issue," Porter said. The Canadian atmosphere receives a large amount of the American industries' sulphur dioxide wastes...
This combined with Bush's stand as pro-environment and the background of a 10-year build-up of public concern over the acid rain and failing Environmental Protection agency standards to encourage a decisive move on the president's part, Porter said...