Word: raining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night softball game I almost played in this spring--I cherished this ambition, of hitting the ball out of the infield just twice in a single game, and here was a chance to do it under the light. But when we got to the field it was pouring rain, and a game seemed about as likely as an anti-Polaroid demonstration...
...last meeting of the four schools, the Crimson-Bulldog team made a tea party out of the affair, swamping the visiting Englishmen on a rain-soaked track...
Ugliest Epithet. Outside the building, Socialist Leader Mario Scares and thousands of his supporters kept an all-night vigil in the rain. In the ugliest epithet imaginable, the angry crowd called Communist Leader Alvaro Cunhal "a new Salazar"-after the late dictator who ruled Portugal for more than 40 years. "Este jornal nāo ė de Cunhal! [This paper is not Cunhal's]" the Socialists shouted. Several times paratroopers sent to guard the building fired shots into the air; the crowd responded by shouting, "Assassins!" Finally Minister of Social Communications Jorge Correia Jesuino, representing the 30-man Revolutionary...
Breslin even gets to the point where he is describing the paunchy, vociferous, cigar-smoking O'Neill as "a lovely spring rain...
...bolt of lightning and a sudden deluge. By 9 o'clock, the city was awash. Nearly 50 delegates to the Second Continental Congress slowly filled the meeting room of the State House on Walnut Street... The room steamed. The only consolation in keeping the windows closed against rain was that they also excluded the horseflies from a nearby stable...