Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighbor with a basement, and as many as 40 people huddled together in these rare dugouts. Not everyone heard the warnings, and not everyone who heard heeded them. By 7 p.m., when the twister swirled over the state line with a roar like a highballing freight train, the 16-store Ruskin Heights shopping center was dotted with evening shoppers. The tornado ripped a path 70 miles long, in some places ploughed a 1,000-yd. swath, splintered more than 700 homes and 40 stores. Ruskin Heights and its shopping center were hard hit. Four died when a supermarket roof collapsed...
...Master's Tools. Engle, a lanky figure with penetrating blue eyes and an awesome store of energy, grew up in Cedar Rapids, just 24 miles away. He graduated magna cum laude from Iowa's Coe College in 1931, took his master's at Iowa City and in 1932 won the annual prize of the Yale Series of Younger Poets with his first book of poems, Worn Earth. Later he went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, tended wicket and pulled an oar for Merton College, returned to Iowa in 1937 to start shaping poets...
...Store owners patched up bullet holes, erased the scars of fire and reopened their shops after a week-long general strike...
...Cookery. Raytheon regards its new process as experimental, and it does not know yet how long freeze-dried foods will keep at room temperature. They can be stored in plastic envelopes filled with nitrogen to prevent oxidation, but in the case of meat that contains fat there may be a tendency to deteriorate with time. Elaborate tests are now in progress to find the best ways to package and store them...
...Brother. In Vancouver, Wash., Patrolman Ted Slothower drove downtown on his day off, went into a store to get parking-meter change, had to wait briefly in line, came out to find the city's only other full-time meter patrolman had tagged...