Word: rainstorm
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...pelting rainstorm failed to halt the tradition-clad ceremonies of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Monday morning, and the annual business meeting, literary exercises, and luncheon duplicated scores of similar occasions in the chapter's 172-year history...
...thrills is watching Outfielder Joe DiMaggio take a practiced look at a ball heading his way, turn, and without looking back spurt to the right spot, swing around casually and let the ball fall into his glove. The unexpected makes some of television's brightest moments: a rainstorm breaks, and the camera shows ground keepers covering the pitcher's box with canvas, then sweeps across the bleachers, singling out soaked fans huddling under newspapers. The key man is the camera director, who must watch on small screens the action of three or four cameras, to decide which image...
...capital, seemed like a dead city, its medieval porticos empty, its gleaming pastry shops deserted. In Milan's Cathedral Square, 25,000 Communist partisans staged a demonstration (despite a government ban) ; they were dispersed by police, who fired machine guns into the air, and by a timely rainstorm. One policeman was killed. But beaming Minister of the Interior Mario Scelba was sure that his security forces could maintain order...
...wife said: "I hope my husband will not be the Premier again. He is so tired." Said he: "We will not fail democracy." Then he went off to Castel Gandolfo to bowl with some of his friends among the local peasants. He was losing badly when a sudden rainstorm broke up the game...
Lieutenant Connally considered the delayed surfacing of the body was probably due to its being pinned under an ice sheet. Monday's rainstorm, he explained, probably melted and disturbed enough ice so that downstream current and wind brought it to its place of rest...