Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since the winds of a north-moving hurricane move clockwise, they peel off from the north along the west side of the storm, and strike south...
Next morning, for hundreds of miles, the eastern U.S. looked like the scene of a giant's Halloween. The storm warnings had served their purpose-the hurricane did but one-fifth the damage, took less than one-tenth of the lives claimed by the 1938 storm. But along every bay and inlet boats of all descriptions lay smashed, high & dry in streets, backyards and fields. Tens of thousands of trees were down; many a householder had to chop his way out. Some 300,000 telephones were out of service; and for many miles the power lines festooned the streets...
...steel and stone, its solid brownstone houses stood firm, but the city's intricate, antlike pattern of existence failed. The hurricane moaned between skyscrapers in 95-mile-an-hour gusts. Water crept into the subways and trains stalled; thousands of people stayed in downtown buildings, watching the storm crash through the stone canyons. Up & down Long Island and through Westchester County huge old trees were uprooted bodily, usually falling south...
...Warsaw to rubble. Now at last, Russian warplanes came over the city dropping food and ammunition to the patriots at far less cost and risk than the R.A.F., which previously did it from bases over 800 miles away. But whether the Russians would try to cross the Vistula and storm the bluffs held by the Germans was still uncertain. The Russians have a more economic technique of enveloping such cities, demonstrated at Kiev. Last week they already had a bridgehead across the Vistula 25 miles southeast of Warsaw, from which the southern arm of a pincers could be forged...
...cools off in the upper atmosphere, the air currents move faster & faster. Soon the growing whirlwind, given a counterclockwise spiraling motion by the earth's rotation (it is clockwise in the Southern hemisphere), resembles a vast phonograph record, with a hollow core, the vortex or "eye" of the storm, through which the sun may shine on the turbulent sea below...