Word: thunderstorms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday, however, was a "kick i' the arse." By 2:30 p.m. a thunderstorm had washed out the entire semifinal singles round, forcing the finals to Monday night. Stolle, who was scheduled to play in France Monday afternoon, was stuck...
...striped pants, patent-leather boots and a six-string guitar. The figure swivels around and drawls, "Hello-I'm Johnny Cash." At that, the 3,006 people who have been smothering their enthusiasm back in the cavernous depths of the Grand Old Opry House break loose like a thunderstorm on a hot July day. For like the man said-it's Johnny Cash...
Then came the worst plague-a drenching thunderstorm and an on-and-off drizzle climaxed by a 17-hour deluge. Before it ended, the greensward had been churned into six inches of gumbo as thick as Delta farm land, and clouds of mosquitoes dive-bombed the dwellers. To avert dysentery and flu epidemics, the leaders evacuated 100 of the 2,400 residents, mostly toddlers, until the campsite could dry out. Still, the campaign's leaders professed themselves undiscouraged. "I was talking to the Lord," Bevel reported, "and he said he was going to let a little mud in here...
...Frontier Airlines crash in Colorado in which the pilot and copilot, the plane's only occupants, died. At week's end, the safety board dispatched a special team to Texas to investigate the crash of a Braniff International Electra, with 84 aboard, during a heavy thunderstorm...
...disreputable (and now discredited) Palestine Liberation Army, there are at least halt dozen independent fedayeen organizations, most of them less interested in playing Arab politics (as was the P.L.A.) than in fielding effective guerrillas. The largest, and to all appearances the most dynamic, of them all is Asita (thunderstorm), the paramilitary arm of a broader political group named El Fatah, whose commandos call themselves storm troopers...