Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swirl-dimpled, symbol-specked Weather Bureau maps, the storm gathered in classic pattern: polar air and Gulf of Mexico winds butted along a line that curled like an overturned roller coaster; winds overhead fluxed cold and warm. Translated into ground-level consequences last week, the winter's most severe storm heaved snow, sleet, gales, tornadoes and floods over most of the U.S. west to the Rockies, by week's end was responsible for more than 100 deaths...
...storm ended, sun reappeared, temperatures dropped, floods eased and the Weather Bureau mapped a heavy cold wave that all but froze the floods in their tracks...
Majority Rule. The AEC's dissent punctuated one of the strangest chapters in modern U.S. diplomacy, a chapter that brought important modifications of longstanding U.S. nuclear policy with hardly a word of public debate. It began in 1957-58, when the Russians whipped up a new storm of propaganda against nuclear tests as a hazard to health and wholesome genetics. The Communists got special plaudits from neutralists in Asia and Africa, from U.S. pacifists and idealists, when the U.S.S.R. announced in March 1958 that it was suspending tests. At one point, Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge warned...
...short Philadelphia by announcing that he had assurance from the White House that a big Government contract would go to Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp. Few outside Philadelphia paid much heed to the matter then. But last week, when the contract was formally announced, an international storm erupted over the order and the Administration's freer-trade policies...
Margaret Courtenay as Gertrude stirs up a small storm with Mr. Neville in the Closet Scene, but everybody else is calmly, gracefully in the vein. Oliver Neville (Claudius), Joseph O'Connor (Polonius), John Humphry (Laertes), and David Dodimead (Horatio) play the most important parts, and all are guaranteed free from any active ingredients...