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...enemy raiders off the starboard bow." He raced to the deck of the U.S. merchantman just in time to stop a shower of splinters from the first shell. As he lay dazed, more shells screamed over the deep blue South Atlantic to bury themselves in the ship's unarmored sides...
After Caleb Loring opened the evening's festivities with a goal at 0:14 in the very first Crimson rush, the Chasemen let fly a shower of rubber at Engineer goalie Al Tashjian, and when the boys started to scrape the ice at the end of the first canto, the score...
Each person on earth unwittingly encounters a shower of cosmic rays about once a minute, whether indoors or out. Each shower covers two or three acres and contains from 100,000 to 1,000,000 high-speed electrical particles. Even airraid shelters, are no protection-the rays penetrate steel and concrete. But no protection is necessary. The rays are harmless...
...first the correspondents lived in foxholes. When the marines had the situation in hand, the correspondents got a five-bunk tent ("The Press Club") with a luxurious wood floor and a water-bucket shower bath...
...jollities in matters Roman ("Life wouldn't be worth a punched denarius"). Psychologists will nod retroactively when Marcellus has "reasons for surmising that [Antonia] was a victim of repression." Wodehouse fans will note the Jeeves-like quality of Bodyguard Demetrius ("You will need some heavier sandals, sir ... a shower and a rubdown put you in order. I have laid out fresh clothing...