Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George R. Stewart's 1941 novel, Storm, a young meteorologist named the low-pressure areas on his map after girls (the stormiest: Maria). The U.S. Weather Bureau has since tagged feminine names on hurricanes. This year, to avoid repeating the names of three memorable 1954 hurricanes (Carol, Edna and Hazel), the bureau decided on a new list of names...
...Swiss Watch. Still the cops did not try to storm the big house. As one of the masked men tried to leave the legation, he was captured by the cops. He said that he and his accomplices were all members of a Rumanian anti-Communist resistance movement and had planned the action (and others in Stockholm and Copenhagen) as a protest against the imprisonment of prominent resistance leaders in Rumania. His companions were armed with automatic weapons and grenades, he warned, and would resist "until death" because they knew that there was no escape for them. Searching him, cops found...
...index cards which were soaked by rain water last Friday are now dry, but most are being pressed and won't be back in place for about two weeks, Miss Haskins said. Water damaged the cards after overflowing from an air conditioner reservoir during last Friday night's storm...
...said that he would ask for another tour because Tuesday's snow storm cut traffic and the bus did not make regular stops...
...poverty she encountered as a social worker on Manhattan's East Side and later in Oakland, Calif. Sentenced to prison in 1920 under California's Criminal Syndicalism Act to curb post-World War I sabotage, she was eventually pardoned by Governor Clement Calhoun Young after a storm of appeals from liberal sympathizers, many of whom were later alienated by her strict following of the Stalinite Communist line...