Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...granddaughter Shannon. Her health had been troubling her for weeks. At 5 ft. 4 in., the teenager weighed only 100 lbs. More significantly, she was constantly thirsty. By June 18, Shannon was complaining of weakness and dizziness and decided to stay home from her job at her father's storm-door company. Though she was worried about her health, the thought of calling a doctor never occurred to Shannon. Instead she asked to be "anointed," a procedure the church reserves for extremely serious illnesses. The day after, she felt better and was prepared to pass the whole thing...
Kerboom! a mini-racial fire storm erupted. Woods' remarks infuriated many African Americans who hailed his record-setting triumph at the Masters as a symbol of racial progress but see him as a traitor. To them Woods appeared to be running away from being an African American--a condition, they were quick to point out, that he himself had emphasized when he paid tribute to black golf pioneers Teddy Rhoades, Charlie Sifford and Lee Elder in his graceful victory speech. In a mirror image of Zoeller's constricted views, some blacks saw Woods' assertion of a multiracial identity...
...which is half an hour and a billion miles away in the wealthy Main Line, travels to inner-city Philadelphia once a week with seven of her classmates. When their van pulls up to the three-story row house that is headquarters for the Norris Square Neighborhood Project, kids storm out to hug the visitors...
...fast-rising storm caught climbers far above the high camp, some of them still heading uphill much too late in the day. Hall bivouacked near the summit, below the Hillary Step, with Doug Hansen, a friend and client who had reached the top after two tries, and there they both died. Before that happened, Hall had radioed to his wife Jan in Christchurch, "I love you. Sleep well, my sweetheart." Fischer, too weak to descend in the gale, froze to death somewhere below. Eight others died from the storm, but of several climbers who missed Camp Four in zero visibility...
...cartilage; his body had burned away 20 lbs. of muscle mass; he was running out of bottled oxygen. But the deadliest element of his situation was one he barely noticed: innocent-looking clouds rising from valleys to the south. They were the tops of thunderheads, carrying a violent spring storm that would kill 11 climbers before it blew itself...