Word: gusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administration building and said: "This is Bezzerides; I'd like to have you come in." Connell did not recognize the voice, asked: "What's your wife's first name?" "Go to hell," snarled the man on the phone. Connell said it was like a williwaw, a gust of cold wind, blowing through the prison. For 26 hours after that, the prisoners were in control of Washington State Penitentiary...
...clock still ticks in the passage, the moonlight still shapes a white pool on the floor, a gust of icy wind still shakes the old house-but, often enough nowadays, the ghost that comes stalking is fresh from a textbook of modern psychiatry. Such old props as bleeding heads tucked under skeletonic elbows, or crimson stab wounds on vaporous bodies, are out of fashion. "Many modern ghosts," observes Editor Carrington in The Week End Book of Ghost Stories, "have become more human...
Once the committee has stated its purpose, it cannot then, according to Javitt's proposals, tack in a fresh direction with each gust of public interest. The testimony of all witnesses called by the committees must be "germane to the subject so stated." This would end the race between committees to subpoena a person suddenly in the news...
Despite its good looks and good music, Gilbert and Sullivan never quite comes together as a rounded piece of entertainment. The script so weakens the true story of the great collaborators that it is blown about like a dead leaf in each gust of song. The real human interest lies in the history of Sullivan's attempts to make himself "a Bach, when he was only...
...Federal Reserve Board expected its index of industrial production for Au gust to snap back to 238% of the 1935-39 average, after plantwide vacations had pulled it down to 2-33% in July from the June level...