Word: edna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like her older sister Carol, Hurricane Edna proved to be a dangerous ondine, full of feminine caprices and packing a 125-mile-per-hour wallop. When first sighted last week, she was off the Bahamas, churning like a top and headed northwest. For five days she minced slowly northward in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast, while along the shore hurricane flags went up, storm shutters slammed down, and everybody waited breathlessly. HURRICANE TO HIT HEAD-ON UNLESS
...MIRACLE' SAVES CITY, trumpeted the New York World-Telegram & Sun. New York battened down and buttoned up, prepared for the worst. Commuters hurried home to secure the family car and bring in the garbage pails. Radio and TV turned their full attention to the big wind. ("Hurricane Edna," announced one television commercial perfunctorily, "is being presented to you as a public service by Con Edison...
...York and much of New England were merely sideswiped, left drenched and unhurt as the big wind fumed up the coast. Edna ultimately suffered the fate of many girls who can't make up their minds: she wound up with a split personality. Over Cape Cod she divided into halves. She made her final schizophrenic landfall over Maine and shrieked into Canada's Maritime Provinces and New foundland. Casualties: 18 dead; damages: an estimated $50 million. Edna's indisputable claim to fame, however, was in the fact that she scared more people than she injured. Fifty million...
...before Hurricane Edna swooped past New York, another, better-known phenomenon whooshed into Manhattan: Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe landed from an airliner and, said the tabloids, the damage, compared to Edna's, was inestimable. Obviously relishing every wolf call and whistle, Marilyn spent her time between a few days of picture-shooting (The Seven Year Itch) at a few nightclubs and Broadway shows, and with a few hundred avid autograph-hunting youngsters...
...replace his lost boat; a Providence clothing store wanted $10,000 to replace its ruined merchandise; a New Bedford cotton mill wanted $75,000 to repair wrecked machinery. At week's end SBA offices were getting ready for more disaster loans for damage caused by Hurricane Edna (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...