Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Jarrell was the most disastrously affected, tornadoes struck a wide area from Waco to hill country south of Austin. Elsewhere, however, the destruction in the path of the storm, which led to three other deaths, seemed almost whimsical. The roof was ripped off a supermarket in Cedar Park, but when shoppers who had taken refuge in the freezer section emerged, they saw apples and melons still neatly stacked in the produce department. Dan Wachoub was barbecuing in his backyard when he saw what appeared to be black smoke behind his home. He went inside and called the fire department...
...Jarrell, Jim Davidson was surveying his flattened home with a sick heart, searching for some sign of his family, when he saw his wife Virginia a few hundred feet up the street. She had taken refuge in the bathtub, been carried through the air and landed alive. In Cedar Park, Caryl and Joe Simpson hid in the utility closet of their home with their four sons and family dog. It was the only room left standing. Back in Jarrell, Ladonna Peterson, her son, niece and mother-in-law squeezed into a bathtub. "It got dark, black...
Students will receive their diplomas at a ceremony in Kennedy Memorial Park...
Shortly after Gates became chair, he flew to Chicago for lunch with Wilson. Over the next five years, each time Gates saw Wilson, he would ask Wilson when he planned to trade Hyde Park for Harvard Square...
...unfulfilled promise of California. I know many of my classmates are also returning to their home states and hometowns, armed with the experience Harvard has given us. I hope we spend time in our public libraries and neighborhood bookstores. I hope we take our children to the park on Sundays. And I hope that, in the process, we continue to watch for the potential of the familiar--to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time...