Word: thunderstorms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saturation Point. In Fresno, Calif., ex-Convict Manuel Eurich, 35, was sentenced to from 1 to 14 years in prison despite his plea that he had written worthless checks only after getting drunk in a bar while sitting out a thunderstorm when he was on his way to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous...
...Harpist Nicanor Zabaleta, was paler, but it did have 'some gripping episodes, notably the haunting harp harmonics accompanying a string song in the slow movement. Both works were put in the shade by the concluding piece, Chôros No. 6 (written in 1926), a fine tropical thunderstorm accompanied by pagan drums...
Among his other early efforts: a rickety nickelodeon piano, a summer thunderstorm, a parade of an Irish bagpipe band...
...With their methods checked by this workout, the Japanese scientists waited for more explosions, which came fairly soon. Last Aug. 26, an electrical instrument recorded a sudden rise in atmospheric electricity north-northeast of Japan, presumably in North eastern Siberia. It was not like the rise caused by a thunderstorm, but showed the characteristic profile of an atomic explosion. Four hours later came an air wave. It was only one-sixth as strong as the waves resulting from the U.S. tests, but Dr. Miyake says this does not mean that the Soviet explosion was only one-sixth as powerful. There...
Lightning laced the sky at Pekin, Ill. (pop. 22,000) one night last week as a thunderstorm rolled over American Distilling Co.'s plant outside town. At 2:30 a.m., a lightning bolt crackled into a rack house full of 100-proof whisky and started a fire that quickly spread to three other buildings. In all, 40,000 barrels-equal to 8,000,000 fifths-of Good Old Guckenheimer, and Bourbon Supreme and other brands were destroyed. Firemen stood helplessly outside a ring of flames so intense that a coal pile 100 yards away began to smolder...