Word: storms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Gentiles, himself no stranger to suffering. Paul knew the inside of jails around the Mediterranean. Before he died, almost certainly as a martyr, he was scourged five times within an inch of his life, he was beaten thrice with rods, four times he was shipwrecked (once adrift in a storm for 24 hours), once he was stoned and left for dead. He spent his ministry, he wrote, "in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness," finding himself "in perils from waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine...
...which is generally caused by thunderstorms or some other violent weather disturbance in the lower atmosphere. Pilots avoid the worst bumps by dodging the thick clouds in which vertical air currents hide. Radar helps by spotting the veils of rain or hail that mark the violent heart of a storm. But clear air turbulence is invisible both to human eyes and to any known kind of radar...
Boiled Bootstraps. Viewed in the terms of the survival manuals, the efforts of the four young Russian sailors were fairly crude. A storm on Jan. 17 had torn landing craft No. 36 from its moorings in the Russian-held Kurile Islands, north of Japan, and driven it out to sea. The four aboard had been unable to catch any fish, made no attempt to trap sea birds, failed to maintain a system of regular watches or to develop a distress signal to attract passing ships (three passed on the horizon without seeing them). Even worse, they had apparently made...
Such a directive was bound to stir a storm of protest. It did. One outraged parent sent State Tax Commission President Joseph H. Murphy 2?. Others complained that it is hard enough to teach teen-agers the merits of earning their own way, let alone have them subjected to the discouragement of tax collection on every penny. Warned the New York Times, only half humorously: If tax officials persist, they "may find that they are fostering juvenile delinquency, cutting car production, plunging parents into the captivity of their progeny...
...addition, the tariff request is expected to run into a storm of opposition from the State Department. State Department officials have argued that protection would cripple the development of underdeveloped countries for whom textile goods are the staple export, said that the U.S. must support free trade to maintain better markets for her exports. Cracked an Agriculture Department official: "We're interested in the American people, and State's interested in foreigners. It's just as simple as that...