Word: typhoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Australians call it willy-willy; Filipinos, baguios; Chinese, tai-fun; Indians, typhoon. It is the wildest and most destructive of all storms.* Last week Atlantic Coast Americans, who got their word for it from the Carib Indian Huracan (god of stormy weather), were treated to an unusually messy hurricane. For the second time in six years, a tropical cyclone hit the Eastern seaboard with full force...
...Typhoon Days. The typhoon was about to break against the next layer of Jap defenses. But by definition the typhoon moves in orderly fashion, always in the same counterclockwise direction,* about a single center. And U.S. Army authorities were uncomfortably aware that the United Nations effort against Japan still had four centers, largely unrelated...
...probably would have succeeded, but for a typhoon that scattered Kublai Khan's fleet and drowned all but 30,000 of his more than...
...given Berlin. About 125 fighter-bombers and fighters, mostly Focke-Wulf 1905 and Messerschmitt 190Fs, crossed the coast at Beachy Head and roared at mast level up the Thames Estuary. The R.A.F. shot down 16, of which five fell before the cannon and machine guns of the Hawker Typhoon, one of Britain's newest and fastest (over 400 m.p.h.) fighters. Only six German planes penetrated the outer defenses of the capital, but one of them carried the bomb which caused the worst London school disaster...
...plot has weaknesses, mainly in its inability to give the whys and wherefores for such inhuman antics, but Sanders' performance stands aloof from these frailties. He dominates the picture from the first signs of the impending storm through his emotional typhoon, through the human wreckage that he leaves behind, down to the final calm...