Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continuing folly." Did the duchess ever consider jilting Edward VIII, or was her eye always on Britain's throne until he left it? She tantalizes her readers: "With a great throne at stake, a vast empire seething . . . I was unprepared and unarmed . . . in the eye of the storm . . . Had I had my way, when eleventh-hour full understanding finally came to me, this story would have had a different ending . . ." Promised by McCall's in next month's installment: "How she became a 'disillusioned Navy wife,' how the night after their wedding she discovered that...
...Southern universities that have been forced to open their doors to Negroes,* none have reacted so violently-or surrendered so abjectly to mob pressure-as Alabama. All week a storm of hatred swirled around the lone figure of Autherine Juanita Lucy, 26, the first Negro ever admitted to a white public school or university in the state...
...soon as the hurricane's calm blue eye takes shape, the Weather Bureau plans to drop a balloon inside it. Equipped with automatic instruments to keep it at a constant level, it will float serenely in the heart of the storm, reporting its position by radio and tracking the hurricane...
...storm sweeps northward, shore stations and offshore Texas towers will measure its waves. Their radars will plot the streams of rain. If the hurricane hits land, Army engineers will collect flood data; the Hydrographic Office and the Coast and Geodetic Survey will observe wave effects. The enormous mass of information will be put on punch cards, fed into a machine and turned into a clear report of how the hurricane is behaving and is likely to behave...
...more energy in each second than several atomic bombs, and nothing can be done about it directly. But there is a possibility that a hurricane's symmetry can be damaged. If the rate of energy release in one quadrant of a hurricane can be increased or decreased, the storm may change its direction, perhaps missing by miles a vulnerable coast...