Word: fawbush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peculiar Pattern. Tornado clouds are unpleasant subjects to study at close range, and so they are not completely understood. But practical information about them has accumulated. In 1948. Meteorologists Ernest J. Fawbush and Robert C. Miller were on duty at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, when a tornado swept across it. After the disaster they went over their data on conditions before the storm and found a "peculiar pattern." Five days later they came to their office, took a look at the day's charts and saw the same weather pattern. They did not dare use the dread...
Stimulated by this success, Fawbush and Miller dug through past records looking for weather patterns that had produced tornadoes. As their experience grew, their forecasts improved, and were extended to cover military installations all over the central...
...testifying that her husband had slashed her fur coat with a knife while she was wearing it, was asked where she got the coat, told the judge: "My husband asked the same question-he objected to another man giving me the coat and started slashing." Reward. In Louisville, Chester Fawbush helped foil a $1,400 robbery, got his picture in all the papers, was picked up by police on a three-year-old grand larceny warrant...
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