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Word: nights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard rains slashed in horizontal sheets across St. Louis one night last week, and radio stations dutifully carried the Weather Bureau's heavy-thunderstorm warnings. The weather was still foul when the city went to bed. Two hours-past midnight, it worsened destructively. Without warning, a tornado, bad weather's traveling explosion, roared down upon the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Five Minutes of Havoc | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Working through the night, Red Cross, Civil Defense, police and other rescue groups dug hundreds of survivors from the wreckage. By daylight the city turned a weary, sad eye on the results: 21 dead, more than 300 injured, 1,800 families left homeless, 1,725 buildings damaged. Total storm cost: $12 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Five Minutes of Havoc | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Crackling Night. Lebanon's rebellion subsided in September, but bitterness remained in the mountains. Quarrels over grazing rights erupted into a series of gun fights in which a leading citizen of Jaafra and a seven-year-old Kobeyat girl were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Revenge Is No Defense | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Princeton is ranked high in the nation defensively as well, and it will take a sharpshooting varsity to stand a chance. Coach Floyd Wilson said yesterday that to down the visitors the Crimson will have to have a good night from the floor while stopping the Princeton offense before the Tigers get off many good shots...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Powerful Tigers Heavily Favored Tonight at I.A.B. | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...Saturday night's contest, its outcome would seem to depend upon the health of sophomore sensation Bob Mlkvy, the younger brother of the famed "Owl without a vowel," Bill. Mlkvy broke his left leg in a November practice, and is just beginning to return to form...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Powerful Tigers Heavily Favored Tonight at I.A.B. | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

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