Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a trip to Pearl city hall to write one last check, Malone heads back to the site. The Mississippi Power & Light man is already there, and a Pearl police officer stops by to inform Malone that the move will be delayed until after a funeral passes through town. Malone looks annoyed. He kicks some sod, readjusts his blue Malone House Moving cap and struts over to the rig to recheck the house's support system...
...police return, and Malone slowly trucks the house from the site, pulling past the Pearl Grocery Mart and onto Route 80. The police escort halts traffic as Malone's son Greg leads the caravan in an attention-grabbing red-bannered pickup. Next come the police, a Mississippi Power & Light crew and Sister Grace, who occasionally slows down to take a picture. Bringing up the rear is Otis Towner at the wheel of the pickup carrying the steps. With hazard lights blinking, the procession crawls past the local U-Haul dealership, gas stations and the post office. Impatient drivers trail behind...
Fortunately, traffic around Canton is light, and the drive through town and up to Anderson's land proceeds without delay. Malone pulls the truck through an opening in the bushes and turns the rig around in front of the burned remains of the old house. "I think you should move it a little more away from the power line," the Mississippi Power & Light man warns Malone as he checks the house's positioning. Towner calls Anderson over to the front. "Do you like it here?" he asks. She looks up and down the building's length and along its sides...
...high-spirited spectators in Candlestick Park were at first either confused or nonchalant. Both teams had finished batting practice. Then a soft, distant rumble grew louder. "It sounded like rolling thunder," said Peter Rubens, a winery manager seated in the right-field lower deck. The stadium shuddered. Light towers swayed. The foul-line poles in left and right field whipped back and forth. Though expansion joints at the top of the stadium absorbed the blow, chunks of concrete fell off, precisely as planned. One dangerous block crashed into a seat in Section 53. Only a moment before, its occupant...
...devastation of San Francisco -- and a calamity for Santa Rosa and San Jose and every other California city from Eureka to Salinas -- began at 5:12 a.m., at the first light of what would have been a lovely day. A dreadful howling sound shattered the dawn, as the earth suddenly rumbled, vibrated, heaved and pitched, wobbling in a demonic dance. "The whole street was undulating," recalled police sergeant Jesse Cook. The quake shook the city, in words that became folklore, like a "terrier shaking...