Word: storming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene of destruction conjured up the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Much of their state was in textbook chaos: trees in living rooms, roofs blown off, crumpled cars in fields where cows should have been and dead livestock festooning parking lots. But at the big storm's extensive ground zero, the landscape was closer to lunar. Returnees sometimes had trouble locating not just their homes but their neighborhood. In Mulhall, a hamlet north of Oklahoma City, the only store was flattened, the water tower torn down, and every one of the 200 homes damaged...
...Friday, President Clinton had declared 16 counties disaster areas. The calamity will yield data on the meteorology of murderous storms. It will also fuel a campaign to assure that new homes built in Tornado Alley without traditional storm shelters include reinforced safe rooms. But the main message, at least according to the Daily Oklahoman, lay elsewhere. As it happens, last Thursday was the 48th annual Day of Prayer. "Right now in Oklahoma," the newspaper editorialized, "it sure seems like common sense to make every day a day of prayer...
...short stories: "Pake knew a hundred dirt road shortcuts, steering them through scabland and slope country, in and out of the tiger shits..." (the reader fumbles this one but is swept on) "... over the tawny plain still grooved with pilgrim wagon ruts, into early darkness and the first storm laying down black ice, hard orange dawn, the world smoking, snaking dust devils on bare dirt, heat boiling out of the sun until the paint on the truck hood curled, ragged webs of dry rain that never hit the ground..." On this fine recitation goes, by sheer loopy eloquence getting...
Then there are the police. The Jefferson County sheriff has been faulted for failing to follow up on complaints by the parents of Brooks Brown that Harris had threatened their son. Police have also been criticized for not acting faster on April 20 to storm the school and stop the shootings. The strongest claim could come from the family of Dave Sanders, the teacher who bled to death while waiting three hours for help. Yet any suit against the police would again run into immunity problems, as well as the reluctance of courts to second-guess police on tactics...
...intensify the bombing in the hope of making Milosevic more compliant." It had been left to Russia to coax symmetrical concessions out of NATO and Belgrade to kick-start the peace process. While the Chinese embassy bombing may make the West a little more inclined toward peacemaking gestures, the storm of criticism facing NATO may also embolden Milosevic's defiance...