Word: tornadoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shopkeepers of Borculo felt a sudden close kinship with the citizens of Warren. Fat, jolly Burgomaster Paul Drost had just told them what he had heard from his friend Cnoop Koopmans, the Dutch consul general in New York. Warren, Koopmans wrote, had just been struck low by a tornado (TIME, Jan. 17). In Borculo there was scarcely an adult who did not remember vividly the time his town had met the same fate...
...never been so insulted in my life," steamed Glenn Cunningham, 39, barrel-chested mile king of the '305. The outrage: while he was giving his oratorical all to the "Temperance Tornado" drive across Kansas, on a Great Bend lecture platform, someone offered him a foaming glass of beer...
...director, Griffith hit the picture business like a tornado. Before he walked on the set, motion pictures had been, in actuality, static. At a respectful distance, the camera snapped a series of whole scenes, clustered in the groupings of the stage play. Griffith broke up the pose. He rammed his camera into the middle of the action. He took closeups, crosscuts, angle shots and dissolves. His camera was alive, picking off shots; then he built the shots into sequences, the sequences into tense, swift narrative. For the first time the movies had a man who realized that while a theater...
Fleeting Hour. In Manteno, Ill., Edward W. Gorman bought a farm at 4:30 p.m., watched a tornado level...
...other prizes: to Chicago's WBBM, for its Report Uncensored (TIME, Aug. 11); to KXAR, of Hope, Ark., for outstanding public service during a flattening tornado; to Washington's WQQW (TIME, Jan. 20), for The Children's Hour, the best children's program, and to Minneapolis' WCCO, for As the Twig Is Bent, a youth rehabilitation series. The U.N. "Network for Peace" wins a special commendation for its United Nations Today...