Word: windstorm
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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...
Beside a rural filling station six miles west of Clarksburg, W. Va. one day last week, some 200 public officials and plain citizens gathered around a square little building with slanting roof and shiny coat of white & orange paint. A driving windstorm had kept many a countryman from attending the ceremony. A storm of public ridicule had presumably made the State Health Commissioner and an Assistant Surgeon General of the U. S. cancel their scheduled appearances. Occasion was the dedication of the 100,000th sanitary pit privy built by relief workers in West Virginia...
Last December Jimmy Wedell made national news by flying a sick infant 1,400 mi. through fog and storm from Houston to Baltimore for an operation which saved her life (TIME, Jan. 8). Fortnight ago a windstorm wrecked his hangar, failed to damage the uncompleted plane with which he hoped to fly 450 m.p.h...