Word: toledo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the Overpass. The story was the same wherever the twisters struck. Near Toledo, Ohio, a tornado picked up one family's car and hurled it into a creek, killing two small boys and injuring their parents. A few yards away, it ripped the roof from a two-story house, leaving the occupants untouched. A truck driver tried to find shelter beneath an overpass, but the twister scooped him out and turned his truck over...
Along the Toledo-Detroit expressway, four people were killed and eight others injured when the bus in which they were riding was spun over onto its roof. The tornado charged into a small housing development, flattened 25 homes, killed six people...
...three mainstays of last year's pitching staff have all departed; Lee Sargent, who had a 5-0 record and an amazing earned run average; Andy Luther, and a 1.96 ERA; and Paul Del Rossi, now with the New York Yankees' Toledo farm club in the International League, who compiled an 11-1 mark last year...
Compared to elephant hunting in the jungles of Mysore or bullfighting in Toledo, it should have been child's play. Confidently the vacationing Shah of Iran, 45, stepped up to the line in a Cambridgeshire pub and lofted three darts at the board. Kerplop, kerplop, two flew wide and dropped to the floor. Setting aside her 'arf pint, Queen Farah Diba, 26, demurely followed her husband to the line. There was a gleam in the lady's eye. Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! She neatly ringed the bull's-eye. Farah pooh-poohed it all, but a bricklayer...
...world does such a trio of great Manets dominate a wall as do the Met's three restored portraits in Spanish costumes. El Greco's alabaster Cardinal Niño de Guevara glowers within sight of the Spanish master's only landscape, View of Toledo, and his last great commission, St. John's Vision. In adjacent quarters Poussin's Sabine women are abducted in the passionless postures of French neoclassic actors. Through another doorway the visitor is delivered into 18th century England, attended by four Gainsboroughs, three Reynolds portraits, a Romney, and a dozen other...