Delmer talked about Agent Orange, the defoliant that rained down on the jungle from U.S. planes.

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Yet when complaints rained down on the BBC about Mr. Robinson's word choice, he felt obliged to atone.

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Commemorations will also be held in some of the towns where the orbiter's wreckage rained down that bright Saturday morning.

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An assortment of objects - mostly beer cans and small rocks - rained down on the Swazi bench after Zimbabwe's fifth goal.

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Again and again and again, they were being rained down with fire.

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It was only when the ash from the disintegrating moon rained down on their faces and breasts that they began to disperse.

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Confetti rained down, and the sky was lit up with fireworks.

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When the trains came to a stop, cinders and soot from the locomotive's fire box rained down on the splintered wooden planks, clothing, Christmas gifts and human remains.

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Particular invective rained down on Margaret Ritchie.

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Heymans had been horribly exposed at full-back as Argentina rained high kicks down on him in the first night disaster in Paris, but he was back on the wing on Sunday and grabbed the first try after seven minutes.

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