Word: thunderhead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schwarzschild realizes that only an astronomer can appreciate the full beauty of his photographs. They are covered with roundish bright spots, each of which is a bubble of hot gas 200-500 miles in diameter that has worked its way up from the sun's interior like a thunderhead. The charm of the pictures, says Schwarzschild, is their unprecedented sharpness...
...were caused by the proposed U.S. Air Force budget. As congressional hearings went on behind closed doors. Wall Streeters were busily trying to figure which companies would be able to fly off with the biggest share of the contracts. Aircraft stocks bounced up and down like jets in a thunderhead. North American Aviation was down from a 1956-57 high of 49⅞ to 31⅞ while General Dynamics jumped 3¼ points to a new high at 61¼, followed closely by Boeing with a gain of 2⅛ points...
Storm Buster. Cook, 34, learned to fly at 14 and soloed at 15. Last year, while dusting crops in the Nebraska panhandle, he made a sideline of busting hailstorms. Whenever an unusually black and mean-looking thunderhead drifted toward the sugar-beet fields of the North Platte Valley, Cook would fly into it, seeding its turbulent heart with silver-iodide particles. This maneuver provided the cloud with plenty of nuclei for ice to form on, so the hailstones did not grow big enough to fall and cut up the tender beet leaves...
Suddenly the awful yellow of the caution lights flared around the track. Drivers slowed down, forbidden to pass each other until the danger was past. Black fumes, more ominous than any thunderhead, eased upward over the backstretch. The racket of racing engines sounded loud against the tense and quiet crowd. Reason for the yellow lights: a four-car pile-up that had jammed the track ahead of Wild Bill Vukovich. All the luck in the world was not enough to bypass disaster. Vuky never had a chance. His Hopkins Special plowed into the tangled wreckage at 150 m.p.h., bounced into...
Thousands of Pennsylvania families still vote Republican as Georgians vote Democratic and for much the same reason: Gettysburg has not been completely forgotten. Even some of John L. Lewis' miners in the anthracite regions go Republican-they have never recovered from the Depression, still live under a black thunderhead of poverty and unemployment, react bitterly to high prices and the Democratic cry "Don't let them take it away...