Word: twister
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never chased a twister as did Gene Moore in your American Scene article [June 18], but as a small child I spent many hours, often at night, in a cellar keeping out of the way of twisters in Vici, Okla. These childhood memories are not among my fondest...
Hilde Graf was watching TV last week in her Wichita Falls, Texas, home when a tornado warning flashed on the screen. She rushed to a window and spotted a huge cloud darkening the horizon. With the twister bearing down at about 70 m.p.h., she jumped into her car and raced to the Sikes shopping mall, which she thought had a basement storm shelter. But there was no shelter at the mall, and Graf, along with hundreds of shoppers, cowered on the concrete floors of the mall's stores as the storm struck and merchandise and broken glass hurtled like...
...twister was part of the worst tornado system to hit Texas since 1953, when 114 people were killed in Waco. One evening last week, perhaps as many as ten funnels roared down the Red River Valley, along the border of Texas and Oklahoma. The corridor is known as Tornado Alley because its springtime atmospheric conditions-warm air from the Gulf collides with cold fronts from the north-make it ripe for spawning twisters...
...tightrope walkers, King Kong and New York tourists, it is the World Trade Center, at 1,350 ft. the second tallest building in the world, behind only Chicago's Sears Tower (1,454 ft.). To Germans, the 110-story double monolith looming over Lower Manhattan is a tongue twister: Das Welthandelzen-trum. The translation is of more than casual interest to the Deutsche Bank of Frankfurt, which in terms of assets (about $50 billion) ranks fourth in the world, after San Francisco's Bank of America, New York's Citibank and France's Caisse Nationale...
...Harvard linksters braved winds yesterday that were last seen in the Topeka twister that carried Dorothy off to Oz as they won The Greater Boston Golf Championship over a five-school field...