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Splintered Rubbish. Next day the weather blew eastward toward New England. The forecast read "severe local thunderstorms" when at Petersham, Mass., in midstate, a funnel-shaped cloud formed over the picnic grounds in the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs State Forest, took off across country toward Rutland. In Holden, a young housewife ran outdoors with her two-week-old son. The baby was torn from her arms and dashed to death on a rubble pile 100 yards away. The tornado reached the northern corner of Worcester, Mass. (pop. 203,486) in the late afternoon, mercifully missed most...
...have it all ways at once." His next words were almost lost in the din of angry voices. But Churchill went right on taunting and scoffing the Opposition for having shown so much "quiescence" over denationalization: "They have lashed up their fury, their pretended fury-all false, sham -all rubbish." Around him was uproar. Thrusting his face towards the Opposition benches, Churchill shouted: "Hon. Members opposite cannot do anything but yell. Let them have a really good yell if they want...
...point for the effigies came during World War II, when the basement undercroft where they lay was flooded during an air raid. Until 1949 they rotted quietly in this man-made bog. When the undercroft was finally drained, the effigies were a jumble of decomposing rubbish. Henry VII had lost his nose. A hole in Edward III's skull showed grey underplaster. The abbey custodians had half a mind to burn the whole mess...
...sparring or spooding, invoking or insulting. Cupid and his cards are just so much rubbish tomorrow. And while they burn, the CRIMSON physicist cautions readers to keep in mind Kern's Principle: "When your heart's on fire, you must realize, smoke gets in your eyes...
...stew to matchstick-legged Negro children, discovered that never in their lives had these children tasted anything so nourishing. Said one white rescuer afterward: "The place had no drainage, no sanitation, no streets and no lighting. Outside the houses, there were open latrines, pits and great piles of rotting rubbish, swarming with millions of swollen flies. Albertynsville," he added solemnly, "must not be allowed to rise again...