Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just nine days before the beginning of spring, the worst snowstorm of the winter blanketed New England and extended as far as Virginia and the Mid-west. In Cambridge, the storm stopped even the proverbial mailman...
...Distinguished Flying Cross for his part in the rescue of an air crew that crashed off the Hawaiian Islands. He pulled a rip cord twice to save his neck: in 1932 he bailed out of his burning biplane at 500 ft., and in 1940 he parachuted from a storm-battered fighter. In 1954, as a three-star general, he won the Soldier's Medal for helping to save the pilot of his 6-17 when the plane caught fire on landing...
...comments: "How about Negro hands?" or "What if you're Chinese?" Car cards urging brotherhood and tolerance got the inscription: "There is bigotry in America." The girl who often rode with him would remonstrate, but the young man scarcely heard her. Even then, she recalls, "there was a storm within Harry...
...average person was scarcely aware that any kind of storm had struck the earth. A Minnesota family probably was unaware that the same phenomenon that produced the spectacular northern lights the evening of the tenth also permitted them to pick up BBC telecasts from London. A ham radio operator in Rhode Island with a normal range of fifty miles was startled to pick up a station from Texas, but a Trans World Airlines pilot had to fly thousands of miles over the North Pole without radio contact anywhere. As soon as the Sun set on the evening of the tenth...
Various attempts had been made over the years to correlate magnetic storms with various terrestrial phenomena, and it was to this task that many IGY personnel devoted themselves. A few years ago, a Harvard meteorologist, the late H.H. Clayton, tried to establish a connection between earthly weather and solar activity. It appeared that during peaks of sunspot activity there tended to be more icebergs in northern latitudes, while in the Temperate Zone temperatures were subnormal and precipitation abnormal. It might be pointed out that during the great magnetic storm of February 10 the eastern and central parts of the United...