Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Generating a storm of controversy, Walsh brought the items--which included two dildos--to City Manager Robert W. Healy's office. But Healy returned them to the Cambridge Arts Council, which operates the gallery, and the items were subsequently reinstalled...
...giant leaks compounded the havoc in a part of Texas that had already been declared a disaster area. Early last week, a massive storm front that parked itself over Southeast Texas began washing the region away. In some places, rivers prowled nine miles from their banks, marauding through neighborhoods that had never seen flooding before. Water poured over earthen levees, bubbled up through storm cellars and then broke into at least 6,000 residences...
Although Romney occasionally attacked Kennedy on his record, criticizing the senator's votes against Operation Desert Storm and his failure to pass a comprehensive welfare reform bill, potential skirmishes were soon cut off by the moderator...
...threats seriously from the start. A congressional investigation last year found that Iraq had rebuilt most of its conventional Gulf War arsenal, including 200 munitions factories, and that much of its war machine -- some 2,500 tanks, 1,800 artillery pieces and 300 combat planes -- had survived Desert Storm. Two weeks ago, when Saddam dispatched 20,000 of his elite Republican Guard south to join 50,000 regular army troops on the Kuwaiti border, Pentagon officials did not share the view of many diplomats that it was all part of a bluff to pressure the U.N. to ease economic sanctions...
...water, passengers remember hearing only the roar of the storm and faintly, above it, the human cries. "You really heard the screams of the women out in the sea," said Hannu Seppanen, a Finn. Only those lucky or strong enough to reach the rafts had a chance to live...