Word: gusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...speaking of Ghosts, have you seen Don Perkins haunting the barracks of late? Poor "Perk"--as the other pale men call him--was last seen riding a local gust of wind, so prevalent in Boston. Pool shark, as well as the distinguished buddy of his namesake roommate, Smitty Smith spent a quiet weekend resting--as he termed it. Maybe he hasn't heard about Scollay Square--or is it "triangle...
Later, Robbie, in all innocence, took Charlie's hat, wondering at the size or lack of it. Just as he was crossing the bridge along comes a gust of wind-you guessed it. Well, Robbie ran along the river bank for a half a mile, until finally Rityen's white war bonnet sailed glibly in to dock up below the footbridge. Ruffies and flourishes for Charlie...