Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours after entering the storm we came out the other side. . . . 'Whew,' said the pilot. 'I could certainly use some relaxation right now-with an olive...
...Then darkness closed in. It was three o'clock in the afternoon and above the swirling storm the sun was shining. Yet the plane wing, which seconds before I had watched flap like a bird's wing, no longer was visible. The shriek of the wind drowned out the engines. Water began to pour in through the roof and sides...
...nearly two years Zhebrak's indiscretion went unpunished. Then, a few weeks ago, the storm began to break over his head. Three devoutly Communist poets, writing in the very nonscientific Literary Gazette, keelhauled him for agreeing with foreigners who do not admire Lysenko. "Under the mask of giving an objective account of the state of genetics in the U.S.S.R.," wrote the three poets, "Zhebrak takes up complete solidarity with the most reactionary American professors...
...second tropical storm rising south of Miami threatened to sweep across Florida according to the weather bureau last night, as reports--still incomplete--poured into New Orleans of widespread havoc caused along the Gulf Coast by last week's hurricane...
...theory that small tremors in the earth (microseisms) are caused by changes in the atmosphere. He built an oversized barometer which makes a wiggly line on a strip of paper to indicate minute variations of air pressure. Sometimes, he found, the line was almost straight. Then a "microbarographic storm" would sweep across St. Louis. For hours or even days, the line would jump up and down in jagged peaks and valleys. The mysterious little waves seemed to have no immediate connection with weather changes, wind velocity or anything else perceptible...