Word: rained
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Over the last month, members of the Harvard-Radcliffe College Democrats and hundreds of volunteers from colleges throughout the country converged upon New Hampshire to engage in a war against negativism, apathy and division. We distributed literature in rain and snow, marched through the streets chanting "Four More to Clinton-Gore" in 10-degree weather, called all Democratic voters about five times on election day and attended President Clinton rallies, which were attended by more people than all Republican campaign events combined. The other volunteers and I worked hard, but we didn't do it just for Bill Clinton...
WHEN TWO CHILDREN FROM THE remote village of Mayibout, in Gabon, discovered a dead chimpanzee lying in the undergrowth near their home a few weeks ago, they were delighted. Bush meat is a delicacy throughout the rain forests of central Africa, and chimps are particularly prized for their size and scarcity. Villagers helped carry the primate back to Mayibout, where it was skinned, cooked and eaten. There the festivities ended. Within a week, nearly all those who had prepared the animal for the pot had fallen ill with a high fever. Some began bleeding from the eyes and mouth...
...rain and dreariness have put clouds on blithe spirits, but maybe this is Mother Nature's way of telling us that perpetual peaches and cream is not healthy. February is gone, and as March comes in, it is full of the lion's emotion. Darts and beer lie ahead, but in moderation. An end is in sight; a cathartic 29 days have passed, and the storm is over...
...jazz vocalist," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "Her voice has the heavy, rolling darkness of a storm cloud, but Wilson isn't given to flashy lightning vocals. She finds emotion in restraint -- her voice murmurs low like distant thunder, or strikes a brief, bright note, like sunlight after rain. New Moon Daughter stands as Wilson?s most emotionally rewarding album, a mellow but challenging crescendo of themes from her past work...
...greatest share of credit, however, must be given to the lighting crew. From the soft blues that hovered behind the umbrellas-in-the-rain ballet to the glaring reds that extracted terrified screams from the dancers, the lights played a key role in the constantly-shifting mood of the dance...