Word: tornados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...escorted Nasser's yacht sank with the loss of three crewmen. Then a pall was cast over the celebrations by the death of Algeria's Foreign Minister Mohammed Khemisti, who had been shot by a crazed assassin (see MILESTONES). On top of all that, a most unusual tornado swept across the country, killing twelve Algerians in one village. Many a superstitious Algerian peasant was convinced that the Egyptian visitor had brought a hex with him. But there was a more concrete reason for the disappointment Nasser took with him last week when he pulled up anchor and sailed...
...buzzard is now full-grown and he flaps up an enormous storm. Also whirling about in the tornado are a superhumanly powerful dwarf who lurks in treetops and confuses Laurie Mae with his dead mother; an ex-cop who loves Jesus, liquor and sleeping with daughter, but not in that order; and a skinny blackmailer with a fat tootsie named Sugar Dolly...
Barcelona was in the path of a tornado. As the sky opened, every sun-baked gulch became a torrent. The dust-dry beds of the rivers on either side of Barcelona carried floods 75 ft. wide. Debris piled up against bridges and then the bridges plunged downstream. A 6-ft. wall of water smashed into the crowded industrial suburbs and carried all before it: hundreds of rubble-brick houses, telephone poles, autos. horses and wagons, people. Sixteen gypsies encamped under a bridge were swept clean away...
...dawn, the Barcelona area looked as if it had been sacked. Corpses floated along the beaches. Thousands were homeless, and much of Barcelona's hard-worked industry lay in ruins. The tornado's human toll: 500 dead, 400 missing...
...beginning of the Kanto Daishinsai, or Great Kanto Earthquake Disaster, which was not only the most destructive earthquake ever recorded but also, in all probability, the most serious natural calamity in the long and frequently calamitous history of the human race." The earthquake and the succeeding tornado-whipped fires killed an estimated 140,000 persons in Tokyo and nearby Yokohama. The great fires; known historically as the "Flowers of Edo," destroyed nearly seven square miles of downtown Tokyo, an area, Busch estimates, that was "not quite twice the area covered by the great London. Chicago and San Francisco fires...