Word: thunderstormed
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...from 40 tablets of paracodeine to 26 tablets daily. Mostly he kept to his cot or his chair (he had to have an outsize one; a small one had crumpled under his 270 Ibs.). He alternately bragged and wept. Last week he went completely to pieces during a thunderstorm-which scared the daylights out of him-and suffered, a heart attack...
...Havoc bomber, bucking winds of 125 m.p.h., reached the eye of the storm off Chesapeake Bay, got safely back to Washington. The flyers (Colonel Lloyd B. Woods, ist Lieut. Frank Record, Major Harry Wexler, a meteorologist) reported that it was not as bad as flying through a summer thunderstorm. Their chief scientific observation: besides its horizontal circular motion, a hurricane has strong upward air currents at its vortex and down currents at its perimeter. The plane was sucked up so steeply at the vortex that it was "just like going up in an elevator...
...eels from the pier, fished up & down the Black and Waccamaw Rivers on a 54-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat. Under a canopy of blimps and patrol planes, he had trolled for bluefish and bonito 15 miles out in the Atlantic. (He was almost caught at sea in a thunderstorm kicked up by a tornado that killed 38 people farther west...
...know," he said. "We're just getting our December bodies up now. But they come up quicker in the springtime-men face down, women face up. If she's in the river maybe we'll know in May. If there's a thunderstorm we'll know before that. An odd thing, the way thunder will bring them...
...Nancy Oakes, Countess de Marigny is a dignified married woman, a fabulous heiress and a student at outdoorsy Bennington College. Her husband is in jail, held on suspicion of the murder of her father. Somebody killed Sir Harry Oakes at Westbourne outside Nassau during a tropical thunderstorm on the night of July 7. Nancy is sure it was not her husband, Count Marie Alfred de Fouguereaux de Marigny. "Freddy could not have done this terrible thing," she has explained over & over. "I know he did not do it. ... I am the only person who can help...