Word: thunderstorms
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...which his father is part owner, and gave Mr. Ford a sap bucket of pine with ash hoops, capacity 16 quarts, which had been made for and used by John Coolidge, a great-great-grandfather of the President, who died in 1822. Everybody's picture was taken... In a thunderstorm, lightning struck near the Coolidge farmhouse. It got into the headlines... The President at one time, his son John at another, pitched horseshoes... Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge walked out and stood under the shade of maple trees, while a long line of neighbors formed, had their hands shaken and received...
Before I came to Harvard, my impressions of the College consisted of a quick tour through the Old Yard on a summer day marked by thunderstorm, a glance through the pages of The Harvard Book, the pop wisdom of numerous college guides and my father's tales of sherry in Eliot House. Having spent four years here, thunderstorms have become commonplace, The Harvard Book has sat dusty on the shelf, the advice in the guidebooks has long since fled my mind and I have yet to see most of Eliot House or its mythical sherry. So much for first impressions...
...whether a seven-year-old did the figuring, and I don't know," says Charles Porter of Sky Harbor Air Service in Cheyenne. "A lot of pilots whose time is limited to sea level have forgotten and ended up in the golf course." The weather was ugly. A thunderstorm was moving in from the northwest, winds were 25 to 30 m.p.h. Thunderstorms are a potent cocktail for pilots, a possible mixture of updrafts, downdrafts, turbulence, icing and hail all at once. "I would have taxied up the runway and headed back," says "Red" Kelso of Cheyenne, a retired pilot with...
There was, so to speak, the proximate cause: the fatal stupidity of allowing an overweight four-seater Cessna to take off, in thin mountain air, into the violence of an early spring thunderstorm. But if it had been three adults who died as a result of that decision, the crash would have merited 10 seconds on the local news in Denver...
...tradition. It opened in Dublin early last year with a cast of 26 dancers and musicians (the company now numbers 85). The production's signature is scarcely controlled energy and bravura. Legs fly, but arms too are often loose and vividly expressive. A piece for the male corps called Thunderstorm is a consistent showstopper. It is performed a cappella, the tapping, stamping feet providing the accompaniment. As the dancers traverse the floor, the rhythm they kick up resembles a storm in all its fury, followed by the growls and eddies as the storm regroups. When conventional, cheerful instruments join...