Word: storming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...counterclockwise motion as a drop in atmospheric pressure sucked layers of cooler air in beneath it. The weather men named the mass Flora-sixth hurricane of the 1963 season-and commenced the routine precautions that in recent years have taken some of the bite out of the fierce storms: hurricane-hunter planes to check course, speed, wind velocity, intensity of the rain; detailed advisories and instructions to everyone in the storm's path. But in one of those violent quirks of nature, incredibly compounded by man, all the warnings proved futile. By the time Flora finished...
...appeals and petitions that had piled up during the summer merit consideration. By their choice of cases, the justices would determine the issues they will be ruling on in months ahead. "We are very quiet there," Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said. "But it is the quiet of a storm center...
Once the series began there were several indications that the Yankees' mantle of invincibility has been ill-sewn this year. Whitey Ford, The Indomitable, was quickly dominated, as were the fabled hitters in blue pin strips. The threatened storm in the ninth inning falled to produce the famed "five o'clock lightening." There was hardly even thunder...
...play moves like a storm between two anchoring calms. It begins in the cloistered serenity of a monastery in 1506, as Brother Martin kneels in submissive piety to receive the monk's habit of the Augustinian Order of Eremites. It ends 21 years later in a secularized cloister in Wittenberg with the married Luther, his fierce fires banked in domesticity, cradling his infant son as he walks the night much like any other father. In between are the earthquake blows with which Luther split the earthly crust of Christendom...
...business methods and the trading stamps that have conquered the housewife. Litton makes guidance systems that fly planes virtually without human help, devices that generate light beams to burn holes in thick steel plates and gyroscopes that smooth the sickening roll of a Queen Elizabeth caught in an ocean storm...