Word: tornados
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into a national slang. Its popularity has grown with the explosive increases in U.S. immigration from Latin American countries. English has increasingly collided with Spanish in retail stores, offices and classrooms, in pop music and on street corners. Anglos whose ancestors picked up such Spanish words as rancho, bronco, tornado and incommunicado, for instance, now freely use such Spanish words as gracias, bueno, amigo and por favor...
...Cray-2 to produce a stunning portrait of the atomic structure of a new superconductor that carries an electric current freely at -283 degrees F. The Cray X-MP at the University of Illinois has produced a dazzling array of colorful animations, from the roiling birth of a tornado to the supersonic fountains that spew forth from black holes at the centers of galaxies. Says Nobel Physicist Kenneth Wilson of Cornell University: "An astronomer with a telescope can observe the universe over a period of 50 years. But an astrophysicist with a supercomputer can 'see' billions of years into...
...Christa-Karin Schumann, 52, an East German physician sentenced in 1979 to 15 years. In return, the East Germans got Manfred Rotsch, 63, formerly a chief engineer at West Germany's largest aerospace company. Rotsch was convicted last year of slipping Moscow weapons secrets, including plans of the Tornado aircraft. East Germany also released a West German counterintelligence officer serving a life sentence for espionage, and Bonn handed over two Communist agents described as "small fish...
More than half of the 180 residents of Saragosa, a tiny farm town in West Texas, were in the community hall Friday night attending a graduation ceremony for preschool children enrolled in a Government Head Start program. About 8 p.m., some heard a whistling sound. "Someone yelled a tornado was coming, and parents started grabbing their kids from the stage," recalls Elodia Garcia, 26. A number shoved their children under tables and benches...
Rockford (pop. 140,000) was the victim not of a lethal twister but of glitches in new computer software used by the National Weather Service. The tornado alert was one of five test alarms that were incorrectly sent out to local radio stations last week. Few Rockford residents believed the warning anyway. They know their weather, and early-morning tornadoes are rare indeed. Says Rockford Mayor John McNamara: "We don't take tornadoes lightly here...