Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sophomore year, you could feel the tension grow, as if Cambridge were at the eye of a storm about to break. When the explosion arrived in April 1969, it took the form of cops marching into the Yard to clear University Hall of the protesters who occupied...
...Gene McCarthy campaign, the Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy '48 assassinations and, finally, during summer vacation, the Democratic convention in Chicago at which many college kids who looked like us (and in a few cases actually were us) fell under the brutality of Richard Daley's storm troopers...
Fewer than two years after the University Hall incident, Dean of the Law School Derek C. Bok, one of the deans who reportedly had asked Pusey to reconsider his decision to storm University Hall, was named president of Harvard University...
...were approaching from the valley below. Within two hours they had arrived and metastasized into a monster: shrieking winds blew sheets of snow horizontally at 65 knots. A "whiteout" dropped visibility to zero, and wind chill plunged to -140[degrees] F. "It was chaos up there," says Krakauer. "The storm was like a hurricane, only it had a triple-digit wind chill. You don't have your oxygen on, you're out of breath, you can't think." In one horrifying vignette after another, the mountain began picking off its conquerors...
Those who survived the storm have the choice of seeing their fate as either a happy accident or a miracle. Fischer's climbers, now led by guide Neal Beidleman, were saved when Beidleman glimpsed the Big Dipper during a storm lull and was able to navigate them into camp. Gau's sherpa managed to wake him and get him down to the high camp, where he could receive fluids intravenously. But the most remarkable revival was that of Weathers, the Dallas doctor. At 9 a.m. on Saturday, fellow climbers left behind his apparently lifeless body; that morning the news...