Word: sandstorm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...starts back with him to distant Santa Loma for trial. Along the way he endures interference by the rustler's hellcatty daughter (Virginia Mayo), ambush and pursuit by the lynch mob, the shooting of one deputy, the treachery of another, the loss of his horse, a desert sandstorm and a three-day spell of thirst and sleeplessness. Worst of all, he is sorely tormented by his prisoner's sadistic singing of a ballad that summons up the marshal's old guilt complex over the death of his father...
...night last week, the weather around Bahrein was in one of its ugliest moods. A sandstorm scoured the airdrome and blotted visibility down to three-quarters of a mile as an Air France DC-4, carrying 43 passengers and a crew of eight on the regular Saigon-Paris run, called the field for landing instructions. At 1:15 a.m. the man in the tower signaled his O.K., waited for his first glimpse of the DC-4's landing lights. Forty minutes later, still waiting, he called for the rescue teams. Toward dawn, searchers in boats and aircraft found...
...nights later the sandstorm still raged, and a second DC-4 was lost Like the first plane, it was also on the final approach to the airstrip. It plunged into the sea within a mile of the first. The passengers who got out clung to the tail, and then, as the plane sank, to its broken aerial wire. Total loss in the two crashes: 85 lives...