Word: windstorm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...willow that had long leaned over the tomb of Poet Alfred de Musset in Paris' Père-Lachaise cemetery crashed in a windstorm, fell against the tomb, broke the bust of the poet who had loved willows, and shattered the marble tablet bearing his verses that begin: "Mes chers amis, quand je mourrai, Plantez un laule au cimeti...
...Steel took out $1,000,000,000 in sabotage, fire and windstorm insurance...
...exploded 40 quarts of nitroglycerin in a yawl tied to shore, caving in the boat's bulkheads and smashing cabin windows. Another time, with one of her sons in her arms, she barked orders that got her boat safely untangled after it had collided with another in a windstorm...