Word: thunderstormed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would not trade all the little shakes and jiggles I have felt in the 20 years I have lived here for one good blockbusting Maryland thunderstorm...
...fateful collision could have been foreseen by any air controller, without even a glance at the ghostly blips on his radarscope. Like a Piper Cub lost in a thunderstorm, the tiny Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization?representing 85% of the 17,500 federal employees who direct the nation's air traffic?veered wildly off course. It flew into a rage against its employer, launching an illegal federal strike. An angry Ronald Reagan, revving up the full jumbo-jet power of the U.S. Government, deliberately bore down on the defiant union. The result was inevitable: the controllers crashed, the U.S. kept...
...ahead, kid,' " he says. "The greatest mystery for me is why they continued to fight." He points out that unlike U.S. soldiers in other wars, most Vietvets never shared in a major victory. "For most of them, the war was like being on the fringe of a thunderstorm. When they came home, a lot of them began asking, 'What have I been involved...
...inopportune thunderstorm. Too burnt to boogey. Driven into Nini's Corner, and if you don't feel like talking about the puppies out at wonderland with the man behind the counter, you end up scanning the racks. And there, past. The Boston Review and before Esquire, sits the "Fashion for Men," magazine thick and glossy and magnificently overproduced. On the cover is a wind-blown, rough-and-ready type nuzzling what appears to be an independently wealthy woman, Beneath the logo is the word "Adventure!"; further down, "Summer Stvies on Safari...
January 19. A severe thunderstorm caused us to take in all sails. We made frequent attempts to catch water with our sails spread horizontally, but the boats were very low and the sails were wet with salt water and consequently filled with salt so as to spoil all the fresh water that fell-and although we used frequently to catch a sailfull in a shower, yet always found it too salty...