Within seconds, Rob and his patrol were pinned down, with almost no cover -- bullets and rocket-propelled grenades raining down from every direction.

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Himself, a farm boy, he was haunted by the imaged of a farm family sitting down to lunch and his bomber raining death from the sky on them.

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And in 2008 Chinese soldiers fired more than a thousand rockets filled with chemicals at clouds over Beijing to prevent them from raining on the Olympics.

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Garbage raining down on him from the stands told him how they felt.

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One evening when I came home from the store, it was raining.

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Economists who advocate raining down dollar, euro, and yen bills from their high-flying helicopters say this needs to be done to gin up flagging demand, but this puts the cart before the horse.

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As they streamed out of Wembley stadium after their historic win it was raining, but for the supporters who travelled up from south Wales the gloomy weather was the last thing on their minds.

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The aircraft experienced a "catastrophic mechanical malfunction" during takeoff from Naval Air Station Oceana on Friday, raining jet fuel over Virginia Beach before plunging to the ground, according to residents and Navy officials.

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