Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...river surged over its banks, Andy and Barbara Anderson abandoned their home two minutes before a wave of debris deposited six feet of silt in their living room. With their two daughters, they just managed to drive to high ground. The night passed slowly. The smell was overwhelming: a mixture of sewage, diesel fuel and the gas from propane tanks. The escaping gas sounded like a banshee's wail as it hissed through broken connections. The onrushing waters roared like an avalanche...
...never forget the screams of people frantically waving flashlights as they passed by," says Barbara Anderson. Cars floated past like funeral barks, their headlights still ablaze, before they were smashed or submerged. Trailers were swept along with people trapped inside. The Andersons could hear the screams until they were muffled by the sounds of the mobile homes breaking...
...Loveland High School, which was converted into a rescue center. Andy Anderson thought back over his experience. "You know," he said, "just Saturday morning I was saying to a neighbor how lucky we were to be living in the middle of what God created. Then all of a sudden it's all gone. I'll never forget seeing all those families killed, and that takes a lot of beauty out of the place. I don't want to go back to Iowa. But there's no way to sit here and enjoy the view because there...
...magisterial authority, sometimes approaches the master's command of foreign and domestic topics. In fact, in an overreported town like Washington, the best reporting generally comes from those who are specialists in defense, diplomacy or Congress, rather than those who focus on the big picture. Jack Anderson, who minds Drew Pearson's store, still deals successfully in the tattletales of disgruntled bureaucrats. But he no longer has an exclusive franchise, ever since the archtattler of them all, Deep Throat, told his tales elsewhere. Among the newcomers, the best is George F. Will, who thinks cleanly and writes with...
...worst of these little biographies cannot detract from these fine portraits of our finest women. The final page of Life's "Remarkable Women," an Avedon shot of Marian Anderson, is worth the two dollar price alone. A handsome woman of talent and strength sings to the camera, her thick black hair flying in the wind, her nose flaring in effort, her eyes closed in ecstasy. And that is all you need to know...