Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handed the routine military job of supervising the execution of Christ ("a fanatical troublemaker "), Burton passes the time on Calvary by winning Christ's robe in a dice game. In the earth-shaking storm that follows the Crucifixion, Burton loses his robe, his slave and apparently his sanity. Returned to Italy, he becomes convinced that he was bewitched by the dead Messiah, and accepts an imperial commission to go back to Palestine to investigate the un-Roman activities of the new sect. He finds Mature and the robe at Cana, in Galilee, but exposure to the gentle habits...
...public eye. They seem to pattern themselves after Mme. Defarge. Women were supposed to improve the world when we got the vote, but we seem to be more bloodthirsty than men . . . not one woman now in Congress has poured oil on the troubled waters of the world storm or denounced our foreign policy of expediency...
...Spirit of St. Louis a dot over the Atlantic, fog closes in. Lindbergh looks for holes, climbs to 10,000 ft., goes down to 10 ft. above the vicious whitecaps. Sleet comes, ice edges the wings. For 1,000 miles he flies on his primitive instruments and battles the storm. After the storm comes another enemy, the urge to sleep...
...been eleven weeks since the great tornado ripped through the suburbs of Flint, Mich., killing 113, injuring 547, and destroying $12 million worth of property (TIME, June 22). The residents of Beecher Township, hardest hit by the storm, had been struggling to rebuild their homes. But only foundations and a few frames stood among the ugly scars of destruction. Then, in less than 48 hours last weekend, Beecher Township rose from the ruins...
This summer an unpredicted hailstorm hit the valley before the planes could get aloft. But, despite a late start, the flyers did their best. Weather reports showed a change from storm to light rainfall as the two planes shepherded the clouds across the valley...