Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...storm, which lashed the entire East Coast yesterday, left up to eight inches of snow in western parts of Massachusetts. Waves crashing over seawalls moved the coastal communities of Revere, Saugus, Quincy, Beverly, Winthrop and Nahant to declare states of emergency...
...stays this windy at night, I might go down to the football field and run around naked in the storm," Winter said...
...TORNADO IS NATURE'S EQUIVALENT OF A DRIVE-by shooting -- random and deadly -- then the pair of storm systems that spun dozens of deadly twisters across 12 states, killing 25 and injuring hundreds, resembled a devastating artillery barrage. One trailer park in Rankin County, Mississippi, looked every bit the target of a heavy shelling after a twister roared through it. The storm, unleashing winds of more than 200 m.p.h., tossed one trailer 150 yds., wrapped another's heavy steel frame around a tree trunk like a coat hanger, lodged an empty refrigerator high in a pine tree and left...
...foreign posts and general retrenchment in prestige. The Tailhook scandals of sexual harassment have toppled high-ranking Navy officers and exposed to public scorn a kind of sexism that many in the military still cherish as "virility" and "blowing off steam." The one great victory of recent years, Desert Storm, was so quick and total that it scarcely tested the mettle of troops, and the persistence of Saddam Hussein makes the triumph appear almost hollow...
...film arrives, in more than the usual storm of tumult and hype that attends the premiere of a Spike Lee Joint. Even before shooting began, Lee conferred with Black Muslim minister Louis Farrakhan, an early associate of Malcolm's who has vexed many with his antiwhite, anti-Jewish harangues. Lee also hired a Black Muslim security force as bodyguards on the set. He fought publicly with his distributor (Warner Bros.) and insurer (the Completion Bond Co.) when work on the overbudget film was suspended. Then he solicited and received gifts from black entertainers (Bill Cosby, Oprah Winfrey) to help...