Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tides of the upper air were calm as darkness fell. One balmy air mass pushed up from the Gulf of Mexico, flowed over New Orleans, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas. Cold air edged eastward from the Pacific. When the air masses came together, like rock strata along an earthquake fault, a storm was born...
Lightning's wild blue incandescence lit western Texas, northeastern Kansas and the panhandle of Oklahoma. The storm moved northeast. Before dawn of the day before spring, tornadoes began whirling out of it, like bursts of flame from a moving forest fire...
Gales churned the Ohio River wildly. The wind blew 85 miles an hour in darkened, rain-battered Toledo, knocked over radio towers, derailed freight cars. As night fell, gales and torrential rain hit northern Pennsylvania and upstate New York. Finally, the storm blew...
What are the wild waves saying? For one thing, they may be warning of a storm 5,000 miles away. Last week Britain's Dr. George Edward Raven Deacon told a symposium at the New York Academy of Sciences how he makes waves spill their secrets...
Most of the picture is mere "minor" detail and incident: a summer storm, a Sunday Mass, an inarticulate courtship; baking, plowing, haying, threshing; the steady modulation of the days and nights and weathers and seasons across the land. And such images are the chief vocabulary in which the picture's grave eloquence is expressed...