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Letter "T" » tornado
«It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.»
Author: Edward Dahlberg
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Novelist)
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Keywords:
cower,
cowering,
floods,
frontier,
intrepid,
malignant,
perplex,
perplexes,
perplexing,
Rockies,
tornado,
tornadoes,
tumor,
wilderness
«Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction»
«The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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Keywords:
boulevard,
boulevards,
Buildings,
childish,
fake,
ghost,
ghost town,
Hollywood Boulevard,
obsolescence,
sumptuous,
sunset,
The Crowd,
tornado,
tornadoes,
towns,
tricks
«There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
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Keywords:
at work,
disasters,
earthquakes,
external,
flooded,
flooding,
floods,
flood in,
force,
forces,
illness,
internal,
matters,
respond,
such as,
The Illness,
tornado,
tornadoes,
work force
«HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old-fashioned sea-captains. It is also used in the construction of the upper decks of steamboats, but generally speaking, the hurricane's usefulness has outlasted it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
abandoned,
atmospheric,
captains,
construction,
cyclone,
decked,
decks,
demonstration,
demonstrations,
fashioned,
hurricane,
hurricanes,
Indies,
old fashioned,
outlast,
outlasted,
outlasting,
outlasts,
preferred,
sea captain,
steamboat,
steamboats,
The Hurricane,
the Indies,
the West,
tornado,
tornadoes,
upper,
uppers,
upper deck,
usefulness,
West Indies
«In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here they'll always be known as screw-boys.»
Author: Jack Handy
(
Writer)
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Keywords:
boys,
cyclone,
idiot,
known as,
merry-go-round,
merry,
Others The,
round,
screw,
The Idiot,
tornado,
tornadoes