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German emotions were evidently durable, too. From the ranks of watching Berliners came a spontaneous gust of cheers...
...Labor Cabinet (Shinwell was about to be thrown to the dogs. Bevan was ready to move in where Bevin feared to tread). Cried Ernie Bevin: "My God, working men and women! This is the first Labor Government you've got.* Don't let it fall!" A gust of anti-Attlee anecdotes swirled up. Said one Labor minister: "If you told Attlee, 'Look here, sir, I've just put strychnine in your wife's coffee,' he would say, 'Quite, quite,' and go on to something else...
Gales boiled over the British Isles, at hurricane force in many areas. Fallen trees blocked many main roads. Bomb ruins crashed into bomb-weakened houses, and rescue squads went to work as they had in the nights of the blitz. At Shrewsbury a gust snatched a man and carried him to death in the Severn River. Mountainous waves rolled aside a sea wall in Hampshire and flooded many cottages...
...conjunction conceived a few magnificent moments: when the chorus snatches the question, "Lord, is it I?" from Matthew's lips, carries it off in a gust of singing; when, describing the events at the sepulcher, the speakers achieve an awesome counterpoint with their deepening, astounded repetitions. The passage...
Soon it was much too late. The gust of labor's reaction had grown to a hurricane of anger (see The Presidency). The President, suddenly without any labor friends, stiffened; he would not retreat...