Word: tornados
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least 800 of the estimated 1,200 people aboard the trains were missing, according to Tass, which described the explosion as a "tornado of fire." Many of the passengers were seriously injured by burning liquified gas, the TV report said...
...Military units are searching the forest and mountains in the hope that some of the passengers managed to escape from the tornado of fire," Tass said...
...screen, a swirling storm cloud slowly twists itself into the characteristic funnel shape of a killer tornado. On another, molecules the size of baseballs jostle frantically for position, each seeking out a comfortable docking site on another's surface. On a third screen, a small child in bright white diapers rises on stubby legs and toddles across a room...
...clump when injected into the blood, an insight that cut three years off the usual eight- year research-and-development cycle for a new drug. By displaying weather data on a computer, researchers at the University of Illinois have been able to capture the exact moment when a tornado forms within a thunderstorm, a breakthrough that if incorporated into an early-warning system, could one day save lives...
...telephoned Bush. "I don't want a job," he said, plainly yearning for a job, "but if you want someone to get after drugs, I'll do it for you." Bush thought it over and last Wednesday called Bennett in and told him to get after it. The tornado is about to be unleashed. But this is no wheat field...