Word: storms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...roamed the convention floor freely (while many delegates had trouble getting into the hall at all) to sell Adlai with glamour. Outside, Actress Mercedes Mc-Cambridge, dressed in the costume of a Golden Girl hostess, helped light fires un der ragtag groups of everyday Steven-sonites ("We'll storm that place!"). Over the years, the proper Stevensonians had saved their loftiest political scorn not for those bedrock Republicans, Adolphe Menjou and John Wayne, but for Peter Lawford's Kooky Klucks Klan...
...nonrigid blimp was designed as an answer to the sudden death that had plagued the larger, rigid, lighter-than-air ships of the 1920s and '30s. The French Dixmude disappeared over the Mediterranean in 1923; the U.S. Navy's 680-ft. Shenandoah broke up in a storm over Ohio in 1925 ; the 785-ft. Akron splashed in the Atlantic in 1933; and her sister ship Macon was ditched in the Pacific in 1935. Then, on May 6, 1937, the biggest dirigible of all, the hydrogen-filled German Hindenburg, blew up and burned at Lakehurst, NJ. For a while...
...still could not explain the crash. Captain Frederick N. Klein Jr., commanding officer of Fleet Airship Wing One (which includes the three remaining ZPGs, along with some smaller blimps), insisted: "I still think we have the safest vehicle that flies." The big gas bags, which have weathered many a storm before, are still so useful that they would almost surely weather...
...academic world, such a charge could only cause a storm. Palmer searched his soul before he reported his findings last month in a lecture at the University of London's Institute of Classical Studies...
...convinced that Nereids haunt the local fountains, and mothers believe that the three Fates hover over an infant's cradle to write invisible destinies on the child's brow (moles are known as "writings of the Fates"). Seafarers claim that Gorgons grip their caiques in a storm and ask in ringing tones, "Where is Alexander the Great?" If the captain shouts, "Alexander the Great lives and reigns!", the sea turns calm. Otherwise, the Gorgon tilts the boat toward sea bottom, and all hands drown...