Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cold air, moving in from the great blizzard, underran warm air in Arkansas and Louisiana and tripped off an eccentric series of tornadoes. The most damaging hit the mill town of Warren, Ark. (pop. 10,000) just at dinner time, sounding, said one survivor, "like a brand-new diesel train going full blast across Iowa...
...tore houses apart, roared through a big lumber mill, knocked down a high smokestack, ripped bricks from a new power plant and sent chunks of concrete, heavy beams, sheets of corrugated iron and great showers of boards flying through the air for hundreds of yards...
...journalist in San Francisco in 1848 (pop. 375). It was a time when editors had to be "true with the rifle, ready with [the] pen and quick at the typecase." But Kemble just didn't seem to have much news sense. After a trip to Sutter's Mill, he reported in his weekly Star that the great gold strike was "all a sham, as superb a take-in as ever was got up to guzzle the gullible." The rival Californian had no sense of smell, either. For seven weeks, the Californian and the Star ignored the big news...
...central contradiction of capitalism, which Marx elaborated in Das Kapital, gives birth to three other contradictions. They are all grist to Stalin's mill...
Thomas had actual command in the field in the early battle of Mill Springs, but even his astonishing victory there, coming soon after the disaster of Bull Run, did not win him popular suppojt or the confidence of the Administration. Four Union colonels were made brigadier-generals after the battle, but General Thomas got no promotion until long afterward. He was not even mentioned in Lincoln's announcement of the victory...