Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near approach of Mars last summer was a sad disappointment to astronomers. A dust storm that veiled the planet's disk foiled the fanciest apparatus. But last week's meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific at Flagstaff, Ariz, heard a few bits of Martian news that had shown through the dust curtain...
...Here there is no longer talk of Nature, only eccentric fanaticism, delirium-drunk moods and fever-sick hallucinations." So said the conservative Norwegian Aftenposten, outraged at the show of some 50 oils by young Edvard Munch (pronounced Moohnk) in the summer of 1892 in Christiania (now Oslo). The storm of criticism was all that Munch, then 28 and just back from Paris, needed to become a scandalous success in the gloomy provincial city. Berlin painters promptly invited him to show in the German capital, and the scandal was even greater, splitting the Union of Berlin Artists permanently into two camps...
...Comes a storm. Landslides block the road. Bridges wash out. The bus stops dead in a pothole. The driver and the daughter end up in a barn. But at the catchall conclusion the driver goes back to his wife, the daughter marries a basketball coach, and the salesman wins the blonde to wife by promising her a stove that plays Tenderly when the steak is done. And Jayne Mansfield looks dumb enough to believe...
While Dorothy thumbed the Saturday Evening Post, her pilot-husband radioed ahead to Rawlins, Wyo. for the weather, learned that a vicious storm front was spreading across surrounding Carbon County. As they flew through the grey fringes of the storm at 8,200 ft., Dorothy heard the engines sputter; then her husband shouted: "Hang on, darling, we're going to crash...
...week before Kansas City's disaster, 22 people died when a tornado struck Silverton, Texas. In the week after, so many twisters swept the Southwest that the normally restrained Weather Bureau found the situation "fantastic." One storm hit the small (pop. 207) town of Fremont, Mo. and demolished it, killing six and injuring 50. Seven others died in Missouri tornadoes the same day. At week's end, the U.S. Weather Bureau logged the highest one-day tornado count ever recorded in the U.S.: 50 twisters whirled across the West and Southwest, killing at least four more...