Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a roar, the tornado hit. It blew the house down, yanked Beebe out of the basement, 30 feet in the air, and carried him 200 yards due east. Wright was borne 40 feet aloft with "a lot of timber" which battered and scratched him. He landed some 300 yards away in a wild plum thicket. After the storm had passed, bewildered cattle stood bellowing, boards and sticks driven into their sides. Only the concrete jail remained intact. In the town's crumpled ruins, Wright and Beebe and other survivors found 16 dead and dying...
...Goodbye, good luck and please remember our 15 wives," proclaimed the placard. Printed in Russian and held aloft at the London airport by five suppliant Britons, it left the 20 departing members of the Soviet good will mission to Britain as puzzled as the blizzard of questions they had faced at a press conference two days before. "The great interest that is being shown by the British press rather surprises us," said Vasily V. Kuznetsov, the mission's leader...
Rising from its ashes, the Advocate phoenix has managed to get aloft, though it still has to learn to straighton up and fly right. While the poetry is consistently excellent, the four stories do not all show professional skill, but all provocatively give promise of better work. Lured by Dave Self's splendid cover and five tasteful sketches, the reader will be disappointed by the unimaginative makeup and by the promise of a second and maybe a third pointless article on the UN by Stephen Schwebel...
Incredible cold gripped the Whitehorse Valley of the Yukon. Nothing moved. If a man spat out of his doorway, the spittle exploded in mid-air with a sharp crack. It was 82.6° below zero; the lowest temperature ever recorded in North America. Aloft in the noonday gloom the wild, arctic winds tore mile-long snow streamers from the peaks and made a great yelling that the valley could not hear...
...Room Aloft...