Word: storming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experts, photographs flashed down from the orbiting satellite suggested a big blow 60 miles across. Sure enough, within two days Hurricane Cleo was island-hopping toward Miami, and before the storm dwindled off the Georgia coast at week's end, it had left behind 150 deaths and a jagged line of destruction that cost property owners more than $300 million...
...Cuba's mountains did something else. They broke up Cleo's eye, forced the hurricane to regroup. When it did, it changed direction to a more northerly course, was thus only 200 miles from the Florida coast when the hurricane trackers spotted Cleo again. Flying into the storm's eye, one tracking plane was buffeted so badly that seven of its crewmen were injured...
Legal Donnybrook. The industry's failures are relatively few - 13 drugs have been removed from the market for reasons of safety in the last three years - but they are usually the kind that raise a storm. Five months ago, Richardson-Merrell of New York pleaded no contest to criminal charges that it had concealed information about the harmful side effects of MER/29, an anticholesterol drug; it thereupon was hit with an $80,000 fine and a rash of suits by users of the drug. The three-year congressional investigation of the industry by the late Senator Estes Kefauver...
Nature Plus TV. The simplest models cost about $500, but a variety of optional extras can bring the cost of the housing unit alone to $5,500. Among them: enclosed toilet ($90), shower ($210), hot-water heater ($140), storm windows ($45), refrigerator (about $170), air conditioner (about $250). One model even has a roof that slides out and canvas panels that come down to provide additional shelter...
Taking Heaven by Storm. Ordained in 1921, Cushing spent his first eleven months as a parish priest. Then he had an interview with his archbishop, princely old William Cardinal O'Connell.* Brashly declaring that he wanted to "take heaven by storm," Cushing asked to be sent to the foreign missions. "Your foreign mission will be where I send you," the cardinal answered, and eventually named him chief local fundraiser for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith...