Word: typhoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Helen Gregory MacGill, 76, Canada's first woman jurist (the Vancouver, B.C. juvenile court for 22 years); Cosmopolitan magazine-sponsored globetrotter of half a century ago, who lost out to a typhoon when she tried to beat Nellie Ely's 72-day around-the-world record; in Chicago...
...These days . . . there is a lawyer hidden behind every girdle," one of the party warned Shamus. But soon Shamus and Cleo were bucking a storm of love and hate that swept them like a typhoon. On one occasion, Shamus drenched her with seawater. "You bastard," she muttered. When Shamus took a moonlight swim in the buff, Cleo tossed off her "intimate garments" and plunged after him. "The water was just above her waist. Facing him, she threw her arms out wide. 'Look at me,' she challenged, her head high. 'Don't you want...
...place where the wounds do not appear. . . . Communications are in disorder, homes have been burned . . . clothes are covered with dust. . . . The Japanese people, who love bathing so much, are not able to bathe. . . . Even the vegetables of the family gardens . . . were entirely blown away by this recent typhoon. . . . Through the roofs of the people's very humble temporary living quarters . . . shines the moon and also leaks the rain...
...while the great typhoon east of the Philippines on Dec. 18 seemed likely to wreck Halsey's whole fleet. But the Ti came through without losing a man or a plane. Dixie proudly read Rear Admiral Frederick Sherman's "well done" over the loudspeaker, and congratulated his crew for its safety record. About that time a sailor who had dozed off on the struts under the No. 2 elevator fell overboard. Angry Dixie flushed brick-red at the blot on the Ti's record. When a destroyer picked up the sailor and returned him, Dixie...
...typhoon had blown itself out off Okinawa, but a secondary storm of much greater violence was born from the original disturbance. It swung rapidly northeast toward the cruising U.S. Third Fleet. It was early June, only six months after Admiral William F. Halsey had lost three destroyers in a typhoon off the Philippines (TIME...