Word: rainstorm
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...first night the outboard conked out and they nearly swamped trying to row in a gale and rainstorm. Next day they landed and persuaded a Yugoslav carpenter who had once worked in Philadelphia to come along and help them work the boat. For three days and two nights they sailed down the Adriatic, dodging Italian mines and mine layers. Since no one in the boat knew anything about navigation, they steered by the stars in the southern sky, and did not figure out until weeks later why they were headed nearly due west each morning...
...last time the U.S. fought Germany, it took eleven days to complete the transfer of nearly 300 diplomats and other German and American nationals. This time it is likely to take longer. The exiles waited, as uncomfortable as duelists who are driven into the same room by a rainstorm just as they are ready to shoot...
...blazing sun, the only player hot enough to crack par was 36-year-old Denny Shute of Chicago, a 50-to-1 shot. As for the Texans, Nelson shot 73, Hogan 74, Demaret 75, Guldahl 79. On the second day, play was held up for an hour during a rainstorm that sent an unprepared gallery of 10,000 running helter-skelter for shelter. When the last bedraggled, drenched and mud-caked player turned in his card at dusk, the thundering herd of Texans were still just a distant...
...first of a home-and-home series between Holy Cross and the Crimson Varsity nine, washed out by a heavy rainstorm that inundated the Worcester diamond Saturday afternoon, may be played as part of a double header on June...
...hours the Potomac lay in harbor. Then she slipped out to sea with her two escorting destroyers, to undisclosed fishing grounds, to a rainstorm, to a period of rest and relaxation for the President. He needed it. The head cold that has bothered him through two critical weeks in Washington still hung on; the crises that were coming would require a reserve of strength through the spring...