Word: raining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dropped a lot of rain on Cambridge this fall but the women's cross-country team has shone, dropping just one race all season. The fledging runners quickly got their legs in this, their second year of competition...
...capable of admitting his mistakes (ostriches, for example, and avocados), taking pleasure in his successes ("That's profound," somebody says when God manifests his wisdom at one point; "Sometimes I get lucky," responds the deity). Called upon to prove his powers by changing the weather, he makes it rain only inside the skeptic's car, there being no point in spoiling everyone else's day. Asked about recent miracles, he lays claim only to the New York Mets' 1969 World Series victory. Mostly he dismisses matters of this kind contemptuously: "Special effects," he sniffs...
...Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor hail, nor dark of night will ever stop Sarah Mleczko from scoring her appointed share of goals...
Yesterday it was rain that the Crimson scoring dynamo had to battle; but over the soggy terrain, Mleczko made her appointed rounds and delivered four unassisted goals to the Harvard women's field hockey team to give them a 4-1 win over Wellesley...
...light but constant rain, Mleczko and the attack wasted little time, as the right inside drilled a shot into the Wellesley net just three minutes after the opening face...