Word: raining
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When the day’s sporadic rain momentarily intensified during the die-in, one student shouted: “It’s only water. The people of Iraq have to deal with bombs raining down on them.” The rain did, however, succeed in driving off the Republican counter-protestors...
...Saturday, proved to be more positive for the Crimson as it swept past No. 14 seed St. Joseph’s 7-0. Harvard dropped only one match—one of the three doubles matches—and within its singles play only lost a single set. Rain and other inclement weather created havoc with the scheduling yesterday, and the tenth-place match against Boston College had yet to be played. The only complete results from yesterday morning belonged to the tournament semifinalists. No. 5 Columbia upset the top-ranked Brown Bears to make it to the finals, where...
...yesterday’s final round, an outright win may have been out of reach for the men but second place was there for the taking. The Crimson held third place and trailed Central Connecticut State by only three strokes. Facing temperatures hovering in the fifties and nearly constant rain, the twelve-team field suffered a nearly three-stroke hit to its scoring average. That was little consolation to the Crimson, as its score ballooned 14 strokes from an already disappointing 305 to 319. Said team captain Tom Hegge, “Part of it was the weather...
...While laying possibly the most crucial part of the turf—the sand and rubber fill that simulates soil—rain jeopardized the field’s ability to be ready by the season’s start...
...average listener, Bush’s words sounded reasonable. The exhaust from a hydrogen engine is just plain water—unlike the noxious mixture of greenhouse gases, acid rain-causing compounds, and uncombusted gasoline that normal engines emit. And supporters hope that increased usage of hydrogen would alleviate our dependence on foreign oil, if we aren’t fuelling up with Saudi gas. This is the popular allure of hydrogen fuel: cleaner than Dick Cheney’s dinner plate, and not beholden to unstable and perhaps unfriendly governments...