Word: tornadoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Dorothy watching the oncoming tornado, I read about the growing debate over the mission of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). I hope that somebody clicks their heels and wakes up before that home, that wonderful place that PBHA has built, is destroyed in the growing storm...
...death toll was even higher in Huntsville, Ala. There too a school was struck by a tornado. Yet, although it was leveled, the timing -- about 4:30 p.m. -- was fortunate, since most of the children had left. But the twister that roared through the city killed 18, ranging in age from 2 to 67, and demolished 119 houses. "It just started shaking and tearing at everything it could get hold of," said real estate broker Ike Carroll. Jeweler Robert Husman, buried under debris in his demolished store, squirmed to the surface. "I came up looking at the taillights...
...Casey, it was the story of a lifetime. A television cameraman for WSB-TV, the Atlanta affiliate of ABC, Casey narrowly escaped death last week as a Georgia tornado flattened his mobile broadcasting van. Casey's tape of the tornado was dynamite. Alerted that evening by WSB that the story was being transmitted by satellite, ABC News decided to use the gripping footage as its lead on Nightline. By the time it did, however, thousands of viewers had already seen Casey's emotional report on Cable News Network, an ABC rival...
...Older people, once considered emotionally frail, are now regarded as exceptionally hardy. Their wealth of experience gives them a broader perspective to draw on. Children, on the other hand, appear to be very fragile. Psychologist Bill Locke of Texas Tech, who studied the aftereffects of a 1970 tornado in Lubbock, found that youngsters, even those as old as ten, regressed into clinging and infantile behavior and that some residual effects were felt in adolescence. Other high-risk groups: single parents, especially women, who usually carry the brunt of their family's emotional needs; and the poor, who are often already...
DESPITE the tragedies which pursue Jasmine--one character says to her, "you are a tornado. You're leaving a path of destruction behind you."--there is a lot of love and warmth coursing through this tale. As an undocumented au pair girl in New York, she adopts the name Jase and becomes part of her first American family--Wylie and Taylor and their daughter Duff...