Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Breath. From the Gulf and from Canada, warm and icy air rushed together to form the whirling center of a new storm. Over Abilene, Tex. the clouds turned copper with dust, while a steely blue frost wandered across the Little Big Horn. As the languid, wet air swirled above the cold, it began to generate wind, sleet, thunder and lightning. One bolt killed a woman in Wever, Iowa in the midst of a driving blizzard. At Whittemore, 230 miles away, a bridal couple was unhappily snowbound in a house with 50 wedding guests...
High Wind. Over the central plains, meanwhile, the dying storm sucked in new air like an empyrean vacuum cleaner. One of its gulps started a tornado roaring through north central Arkansas and southern Missouri. Seven died. Another sent half a dozen twisters spinning through Alabama and up into Georgia. Six died...
Across New England and northern New York, which had been luxuriating in an early thaw, the slushy windrows stiffened and the seed went back to sleep as the storm rolled over on its way to sea. But 750 miles south, in Charleston, S.C., people shed their coats and wondered what had got into winter. Charleston's thermometers stood at a record 75° above...
...from hospitals throughout the Boston area testify that the notable absence of colds, pneumonia, and other respiratory ailments is not something peculiar to Harvard. While such a situation is indeed heartening, in another sense it is almost ominous, as if the world were temporarily becalmed, waiting for a vast storm of disease to strike...
...another disastrous flu pandemic. The policy of the University medical men must be one of watchful waiting. They should decide now how best they could vaccinate men wholesale in case of emergency. They should assure ready access to stocks of vaccine, if and when an epidemic strikes. The storm signals are flying; the Hygiene Department must batten its preventive hatches...