Word: thunderstormed
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WHILE a sharp summer thunderstorm crackled across the St. Lawrence Valley, crowds of raincoated tourists scrambled to the crest of a high dirt dike near Cornwall. Ont. one morning last week and peered through the mist toward a stubby earthen dam 2½miles away. At 7:55 a warning rocket arched overhead, and a voice on a loudspeaker began a countdown. An engineer in a timbered bunker pressed a button; from the explosive-mined dam a yellow curtain of debris belched upward toward the thunderheads. Deliberately, the blasted dam crumbled, and muddy water poured through, first in a thick...
...subscription from loyal supporters, launched a gleaming cedar shell bought for them by U.S. admirers. But the long-legged Huskies, set to sail off with the Grand Challenge Cup, overlooked the heavily muscled Russians, who brought the same crew that narrowly lost to Cornell last year. Through a torrential thunderstorm Russia's Trud Club crew chopped off a snappy 37 strokes to the minute that gave them an immediate three-quarter-length lead. The Huskies started at 38, flagged to 31, lost by 1½ lengths. The rain-soaked Huskies glomped off to their tent without congratulating the victors...
Holy Horror. But sinister portents made the true picture clear. The Emperor's horse fell ("A Roman would turn back," someone said); a gigantic thunderstorm destroyed, among other things, 10,000 horses. Worst of all, there were no Russians to defeat. Ségur describes in familiar scenes how the Grande Armée advanced into silent wastes; the aristocrats burned their houses and took their serfs with them to the East. Napoleon snapped: "Do you think I have come all this way just to conquer these huts?" The Russians were inspired-not by liberty-but by what...
...blue and white bus, with 20 passengers aboard, was 2½ hours out of Dallas, pounding north along two-laned U.S. Highway 69-75 through a heavy nighttime thunderstorm, when it suddenly skidded off the road and slammed sideways into a dead tree that broke with an eerie crunch. No one was seriously injured. Then freckled-faced Shirley Stith, 23, screamed out for her 18-month-old daughter Melanie Jane, who had been thrown through a hole in the bus's side...
...shortcomings of the present traffic control system. The two planes--a Trans-World Airlines Super-Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7--took off from Los Angeles three minutes apart and were to fly approximately the same course. The TWA plane, flying at 17,000 feet, ran into a thunderstorm and requested permission from a Civil Aeronautics Administration station, to climb to 21,000 feet; the request was turned down because the UAL plane already occupied that altitude. The TWA pilot then asked to fly 1000 feet "above the weather"--a normal request that was granted...