Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the tornado hit nearby Udall. Gart went into action. During the next 50-odd hours, he directed the activities of five of his reporters, contacted some 20 Kansas photographers for picturesand coordinated the storm coverage of two TIME staff correspondents, Don Connery of the Chicago Bureau on the ground, and Frank McCulloch overhead in a chartered plane from Dallas. Gart was still feeding copy to TIME in the small hours Saturday as a new storm lashed Wichita, hail rattled on the Eagle windows and the radio blared new tornado warnings...
...House sent to the Senate a $1.1 billion Commerce Department appropriation, after passing an amendment adding $2,250,000 to the Weather Bureau's funds for improving the emergency hurricane-and storm-warning system. The President's request for a crash program to complete the Inter-American highway in three years, instead of six, was rejected...
...worst storms on earth are tornadoes, and most tornadoes hit the U.S.: 5,204 in 35 years (1916-50), killing 7,961 people and causing $476 mil lion in damages. History's worst, the Tri-State tornado of 1925, killed 689 people in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. A single storm front can create several tornadoes, each whirling furiously for a few fearsome miles. Sometimes the roaring black vortex stays harmlessly in the sky; when it dips to earth, the impact can dig a crater...
...down on the job in the first half of the month and then working like crazy (and at overtime) in the second half to make up the month's prescribed production quota. A new word was added to the Soviet work vocabulary to describe this phenomenon: shturmovshchina, i.e., storm attack. "Shturmovshchina," said Premier Bulganin, "leads to low-grade production...
...evaluation of all that religious conversion is as correct as it is shrewd and witty. I, too, know the "hunger for a show" of the British people-and why confine it to the British anyway? As for that Irish newspaper which said that Billy had taken Ireland by storm even in absentia: phooey! MAUD CHEGWIDDEN San Francisco Sir: If Graham goes for orange juice, the unpriestly Priestley is steeped in dill-pickle juice. This cynic is not one of those Britons whose minds "are wide open as well as being empty." His mind, though empty, is closed...