Word: rains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with winds estimated at more than 260 m.p.h. that stripped the hides off cows, upended 50,000-lb. garbage trucks, lifted the asphalt off the road and turned the Double Creek Estates subdivision, a community of about 75 homes and small businesses, into a dreary brown plain littered with rain-soaked lumber; jagged, anonymous pieces of metal; and the bare, black bellies of truck frames. Bruce Thoren, a National Weather Service meteorologist said the storm was "too large to outrun and too strong to have survived, unless you got away from the path." In its wake, half a mile wide...
...Head of the Charles Regatta is canceled for the first time in 32 years due to heavy rain and powerful winds, disappointing spectators and competitors from around the world...
...trip to Acapulco and Mexico City did not disappoint, even though I had my wallet stolen on a Mexico City subway platform and even though our form--with the key exception of senior co-captain Ed Boyda--was unexceptional. But thereafter, the season turns back into the wind and rain of Massachusetts, and once more we were back to playing golf in conditions that begged for galoshes and thermals, not softspikes and shorts...
Onto Ivies, then, and a drab, rain-swept effort that saw us finish fifth, with Luis struggling to get on top of his game and nobody breaking 160 in a rain-shortened event. But thereafter things turned for the better...
...talks about was, of course, Creedence Clearwater Revival, one of the most successful of all American rock groups and, hands down, one of the greatest. From roughly mid-1968 through 1972, Creedence had a string of gold albums and Top 10 singles (Proud Mary, Lodi, Who'll Stop the Rain), almost all written by Fogerty. But the band broke up in 1972, burned out and greatly ticked off that the lion's share of the attention was directed to Fogerty...