Word: thunderstorms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, the history: last April's administering of the MCAT in Somerville was delayed for more than two hours because a thunderstorm caused a campus-wide black-out--which occurred literally two seconds before the already-nervous pre-meds opened the seal of their first section...
...photo researcher Mary Thompson were monitoring developments and keeping the members of TIME's team in contact with one another. Perhaps the most dramatic contribution of all came from photographer Liss, a pilot. Ignoring the misgivings of police at the airport, he flew a small aircraft through a thunderstorm from Des Moines to Jefferson City, Missouri, to take the photo that graces this week's cover...
Today: rainy and windy during the morning, high in the mid 50s. Chance of a thunderstorm then partial clearing during the afternoon, high in the 40s. Tonight: partly cloudy, windy and much colder, chance of a flurry, low 20 to 25. Tomorrow: mostly sunny, windy and cold, high near...
...during a recent flight over Arkansas that Margaret Carlson realized one of the ironies of being deputy chief of our Washington bureau, a job she assumed in July. Margaret was aboard a small plane to interview Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, now a Democratic presidential hopeful, when a thunderstorm hit. "Clinton loved it," she says. "But I'm a white-knuckle flyer even in clear skies." As the plane bucked and lurched, she recalled that it is one of her duties to assign stories to the bureau's correspondents -- but she had assigned this one to herself...
...scene, by contrast, from real life: One recent evening on West 68th Street in Manhattan, the alarm on a little red sports car goes off. Who knows what started it? The passing thunderstorm, a bump from a car pulling into the % parking space ahead, someone leaning against the fender? The plates on the wailing car indicate that it comes from Long Island. After 15 or 20 minutes someone puts a note on the windshield: GO BACK TO LONG ISLAND WHERE YOU BELONG AND LEAVE YOUR ALARM THERE. Two hours pass; alarm still wailing. Someone else scrawls some impolite advice...