Word: rainstorm
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Weatherbeaten. In Reedsport, Ore., Lifer John Tuel, who had broken out of the Salem State Penitentiary in the midst of an Oregon rainstorm, stumbled into jail ten days later, pleaded: "Lock me up. I just can't stand this weather...
...granite features of Father Potter. She often wore big wooden-soled clogs, and skirts of hard, crude tweed, woven from the wool of her own sheep and fastened at the back with a safety-pin-creating such an impression that a tramp, passing her once in a rainstorm, called sympathetically: "It's sad weather for the likes o' thee...
...holy war, to wrest back Palestine from the infidel. In Jerusalem, the Arab temper flared most angrily. A mob surged from the Mosque of Omar, shouted "Death to the Americans and British!" and stoned a column of Tommies. They fell back before British batons and a sudden heavy rainstorm. Tanks rumbled up to the Damascus Gate. The 100,000 British troops in the Holy Land were alerted...
...want to take you on a little tour. . . ." At this point he was drowned out by the rush and thud of a sudden tropical rainstorm. Java's torrid heat made closing the doors unthinkable. Then nearby British artillery opened fire, presumably against Indonesian guerrillas. Sir Archibald, seasoned diplomat though he was, gave up, with a shrug of his shoulders. "I can't compete with this," said he. General Mansergh, not realizing that the thunderous obbligato was being played by his own guns, bellowed: "The Ambassador can't compete with the Almighty-rain and thunder...
...More than 3,000 apparel buyers from all over the U.S. and Hawaii splashed through a Los Angeles rainstorm, scrambling to place orders for spring and summer sportswear from the 1,000 small factories already operating...