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...father gave him a book on flowers, but Alfred found a flower that wasn't in the book. That was the beginning of his passionate curiosity about nature. Soon he was immersed in a research project: in shower and thunderstorm he pulled on his raincoat and dashed out to see what the birds were doing. Kinsey's first published work, What Birds Do in the Rain, appeared in a nature journal when he was still in grade school...
...Pandit Strikes. One morning last week, Nehru moved before dawn against the Lion of Kashmir. It was 3 a.m. A thunderstorm drenched the chalet resort of Gulmarg, where Abdullah slept. Police awakened him and read a letter from Prince Karan Singh, the nominal ruler of Kashmir. Abdullah's cabinet was dissolved; he himself was under arrest. In Srinagar, the run-down capital, 30 members of Abdullah's staff were also arrested, accused of "disruptionism," corruption, nepotism, maladministration, and intrigue with a foreign power. Indian papers hinted that Adlai Stevenson, who had visited Srinagar last May, was Abdullah...
Three weeks later at Missolonghi, in the midst of a violent thunderstorm, Byron died of a fever. It was the sort of death he had invited years before in one of his most passionate and characteristic couplets...
Once Baby gets there, Novelist Robert Lowry begins mixing a thunderstorm of violence. Uncomplicated, and decidedly no bohemian, Fighter Baby figures Laine is crazy to fall in love with a "spook," as he calls himself, but he enjoys driving her around in his Cadillac and ending the evenings in her apartment. For Laine, whose heart is a haunted house crowded with the memories of a broken marriage, two other love affairs and a stumbling career as a second-rate painter, Baby is a kind of dark Galahad of the Life Force. One day when she is babbling on about...
...delegates. But that one break was crucial. Since many of the delegates were Quirino jobholders or otherwise beholden to him, Romulo demanded a secret ballot. Quirino's professionals deftly outmaneuvered Romulo by taking an open ballot to decide whether to hold a secret ballot. Just as a sudden thunderstorm broke overhead, the results were announced: 243 for the secret ballot, 644 against it. When Romulo's Floor Manager Tomas Cabili added up the figures, the convention broke into a thunderstorm of its own. "This means 887 delegates voting," he shouted, "but there are only 863 accredited. There apparently...