Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...base is sucked fast into the sandy ocean floor. Still another catch has to be let go when baby sharks begin to shred a third net. In final irony, the Moona Waa Togue is almost within hail of home port with her decks piled high with pogy when a storm drives her down the coast, washes a man overboard to his death, and chops the ship up like kindling wood...
...needs is a little water and some good people." Mr. Bones: "That's all hell needs, too" For months, as high winds scourged their dry and drifting acres and gritty clouds hazed the sun, the farmers of the new dust bowl had prayed for rain. Last week black storm clouds churned over land that had known drought for four long years-over west Texas and the gasping Panhandle, over southern and western Oklahoma, over eastern New Mexico-and the water came drumming down. It rained for days. In many an area, the drought-stricken found themselves the victims...
Cambridge has a good sweeping system, but for sheer trash Coveney thinks New York is ideal. Being long and thin, Manhattan island is a natural for a fine storm sewer system. In Cambridge, sewers are a mere six feet across. But New York sewers, according to Coveney, are beauties more than twice as wide--although he admits he doesn't get much chance to see them when he's there on vacation...
GUESSING GAME During the last month or so, there has been a storm of guessing about how hydrogen bombs are made. Every non-insider's guess is surely wrong in some particular. In the early days of nuclear energy, only two main ingredients, U-235 and plutonium, were available to the bombmakers, and both behaved about the same. Now the situation is more complicated. Many light isotopes are suitable for fusion, and under the conditions in an exploding bomb, they may react with one another in many different ways. They also react with the products, e.g., neutrons, given...
Hundreds of people storm the networks every week with ideas for new TV programs. Most of them come suggesting quiz shows. Says CBS's Hubbell Robinson Jr., vice president in charge of TV programming: "Everybody thinks he can do a quiz. There are more amateurs running wild in this area than in any other. They're absolutely undaunted by the difficulties...