Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remembered for a long time to come. Beginning in July, the region was withered by drought and a heat wave, the worst on record, with temperatures in the 90s for a large part of the month. The heat wave had hardly ebbed when Hurricane Connie, the first damaging tropical storm of the season, delivered a lethal swipe from South Carolina to Lake Erie, leaving 43 dead. Last week the waterlogged Northeast was stricken with the worst calamity: a record-shattering rainfall and floods which brought destruction to six states...
...spreading, sporadic rebellion that brought the wrath of Islam close to the shores of Europe. The uprisings threatened to cut off France's vast colonies in equatorial Africa. More than 300 million Moslems were already feeling their impact, from Senegal to the Celebes. In the eye of the storm were 20,000 Americans-airmen and their families stationed at the four Strategic Air Command bomber bases in western Morocco...
...took the technical wraps off the controversial Tacan (Tactical Air Navigation), electronic distance-direction guide for aircraft. Backed by the Navy and Air Force as a replacement for the Omni-DME (Omnirange and Distance Measuring Equipment) system adopted by the Civil Aeronautics Administration in 1948, Tacan stirred up a storm in the flying industry (TIME, May 30), but it will probably become the system for all U.S. aircraft...
...apprentice. After a World War I stint in the Royal Naval Air Service, he bagged a berth aboard Typhoon, a 45-ft. auxiliary ketch owned by two Manhattan yachting writers who had just crossed the Atlantic in 22 days. The return trip to the U.S. took three hungry, storm-ridden months. Undaunted, Uffa worked his way back to England again, started making his mark as a builder and sailor of yachts...
...fuel, truck tires, etc. Against this bill stood the American Trucking Associations, Inc. and its network of state organizations. The A.T.A. threw only three lobbyists into the fight on Capitol Hill, but its state units had alerted individual trucking lines, large and small. From the truckers themselves came a storm of telephone calls and telegrams (the House Public Works Committee, which handled the bill, got 5,000 wires...