Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show up on the scope, but the presence of large masses of raindrops is a strong indication of turbulence. A plane equipped with the proper radar can steer a safe course, even at night, among a herd of thunderstorms. The Weather Bureau's radar can spot a storm as far away as 100 miles, and warn planes to steer clear...
...exemption from taxation of Mr. Rockefeller's gift to the United Nations, the other an extension of the war-time rate of certain excise taxes. The rest concern such vital issues as annual rates of pay for Senate clerical staffs, the Philadelphia National Shrines Park Commission, installation of a storm drain under certain lands in Los Angeles, and payments to Switzerland for the sinking of the Awa Maru...
...will next swing through the South) on a financial shoestring. The company left China with only $37,500 in cash and props, is now down to a daily food allotment of $3 apiece-in Manhattan. The one-night Broadway stand did not up the kitty much: a heavy sleet storm kept the house down. But those who came stayed awake...
...incidents caused little if any stir across the nation. History in the making, like the wind of a distant storm, at first barely ruffled the leaves of the nation's newspapers...
...Spella Ho, Fair Stood the Wind for France). His latest is short and exciting enough to be read between supper and bedtime; its nonstop narrative includes the low-level gunning of the Breadwinner by an enemy plane, the damaged ship's run home under sail through a rising storm, the deaths of the rescued pilots. Along with all this, Author Bates raises the moral question that was common in the years following World War I: What friendship does a man owe to his injured, mortal enemy?-a question that is answered with more humaneness by the R.A.F. pilot...