Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company is also facing a fire storm of resistance to its projected historical theme park in rural Virginia, which opponents claim will trivialize American history and disfigure the countryside with commercial development. Meanwhile, combined theme-park attendance was down 6% last quarter in Anaheim (lingering effects from fires and earthquakes) and Orlando (fear of Florida's crime wave). At the same time, the studio's expanding movie production to 60 releases a year may have created the danger that many will compete against one another, the way Angie and The Ref did when they were brought out within a week...
Gump has warmed the collective heart of moviegoers; they spread the word, command their friends to go. They storm music stores for the two-CD album, featuring 32 songs from the rock era. They snap up copies of Winston Groom's 1986 novel, on which the film was based, and copies of Gumpisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump, a pocket-size book of aphorisms from the novel. Then they run back to the theater to relive the experience. "It makes you look at things in a better way than you used to," says W. Bart Edwards, a Gainsville...
Meteorologists described the disaster as a freak occurrence caused when tropical storm Alberto traveled up from the Gulf of Mexico and stalled, dumping torrential rains. Roads, bridges and dams swiftly gave way to the swollen waters of the Flint and Ocmulgee rivers, bringing on a wave of tragedies. In the town of Americus, where 21 inches of rain fell within 24 hours, 16 people perished. Georgians will not soon forget the images of a young Americus woman screaming as the waters of Town Creek engulfed her car and swept her and her baby downstream. Or of dozens of coffins from...
...money cannot explain the acts of heroism that occurred on Storm King Mountain. In Missoula, Montana, Quentin Rhoades, 28, holds his baby daughter Rachel and talks about his longtime friend and fellow smoke jumper Don Mackey, 34. They and nine other Missoula colleagues had moved from a fire in New Mexico up to the Storm King site, where they spent Tuesday night chain-sawing trees for a firebreak. When the winds blew up the next afternoon, Rhoades and some of his teammates were lost and "getting spooked." Then they ran into Mackey, their leader, who pointed them toward a safe...
...there. But I guess he felt the only way he could get them out was to go down and personally demonstrate the sense of urgency. Sometimes a radio message can seem so remote and detached. I think that's why he went back." Don Mackey never returned from Storm King Mountain...