Word: rain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Swollen by rain, the Mississippi inundates five states...
...prophecies were uttered when it all began, when the wind blew and the rain descended on the plains. No dire predictions augured the disaster; no omens hinted at a catastrophe of epic proportions. But for a month, the sky has fallen, bit by bit and drop by drop, and the waters have gathered on the face of the earth to flow into the river; and now it has risen up and rolled onward like an ocean on the march, capturing farmland and township, bridge and barge...
...Louis they were 10 ft. above. There the precipitation over the past six months has been more than twice the amount in the same period in 1992. The past eight months have been the wettest in Iowa in 121 years of record-keeping. And the forecast calls for more rain...
...Class of 1997 arrives in the Yard for registration. Even if you've grown up in Boston, you won't be fully prepared. For the world you're in is called Harvard, where squirrels walk up to tourists, the statue of John Harvard sits serenely and even incessant rain can't dim a quiet air of satisfied superiority (although at times you may heartily wish it would...
...approximately 2,000 athletes participating in the Games were unfazed by the fluctuations in weather, carrying on despite the heat, humidity and sun on Saturday and the intermittent rain on Sunday...