Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soldier-sized captain in the king's guards, one Count de Lauzun, who was half a dozen years and a foot or so her junior. She wooed him ardently. For three happy days, Louis XIV gave his grudging consent to the match, then withdrew it when a storm of popular protest blew up. The Sun King broke Mademoiselle's heart with the wondrously uncharacteristic words: "Kings must please the public...
...Amid the storm last week, he found one consolation. It was a letter from a large U.S. firm that is helping dredge the Suez Canal. The company had already heard of the colonel's crusade and wanted to know all the details, because it was interested in starting a campaign of its own among the wives of its employees...
...guards were swept aside, exits jammed with screaming children and adults; writhing bodies fell underfoot. Police reinforcements tried hauling to safety those trapped in the doorways. But as the crowds inside the stadium kept pushing, the police began beating them back with clubs. Finally, the panic passed like the storm that started it and then faded away. In ugly heaps near each doorway lay scores of injured and the 62 dead, 52 of whom were children under...
Last week the Weather Bureau was readying an array of new gadgets to track a storm like a beagle after a bunny. Stimulated by the many reports of large flocks of birds trapped in the eye of a hurricane, unable to escape against the strong winds blowing toward its center, the Weather Bureau has devised a balloon that keeps itself floating in air of a specified barometric pressure. Released from a hurricane-scouting aircraft, it should follow along at a constant barometric pressure, trapped in the eye like the birds, broadcasting radio signals that tell the hurricane watchers how fast...
...gadgets may get a real test this summer. Meteorologist Miller notes that hurricanes have occurred during May only nine times since 1887, and each of those years had an unusually large number of storms. It may be sheer coincidence, or it could be because hurricane conditions become favorable sooner and last longer. If true, the 1959 season may be a lively one. Tropical storm No. 1, Arlene, roared in over Louisiana...