Word: hailstorm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news from the world's diplomatic jousting grounds last week had all the unsettling quality of a hailstorm on a sunny day. In Europe, Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev, each in his own fashion, made a display of moderation in anticipation of their forthcoming exchange of visits. But in Washington representatives of the SEATO powers were gravely considering the most serious military threat their alliance had ever faced, and in Rio de Janeiro U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold cut short a Latin American tour to fly back to New York for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council...
...Hailstorm. In 1482, after eight years of training, the young friar was appointed lecturer to the Dominican Convent of San Marco in Florence. The pulpit orator whose thundering was to keep a city in terror, and who seldom spoke to fewer than 15,000 people in his great years, wrote of his beginnings: "I had neither voice, vigour, nor talent for preaching; indeed, my sermons bored everyone...
...began the first of his jeremiads on the iniquity of the church, and this time no one was bored. For five years, he developed his somber theme in preaching missions throughout northern Italy. In 1490 he was back in Florence, and the words rang out: "I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter...
...near the Mosque of the Dancing Dervishes, flaming gasoline-soaked rags were flung among the brand-new cars, and soon the building rocked with the explosions of gas and oil drums. A Greek-owned tobacco factory was put to the torch, and fire trucks were held off with a hailstorm of bricks and paving stones. Tear-gas bombs thrown by the outnumbered and disorganized troops were picked up by schoolboys and hurled back. Three Turks died by gunfire as they drove through a roadblock near the burned-out garage; two others were slain at the foot of Othello...
...superbly, gave old Norma the kind of urgency it has not known in decades. The orchestra, trained and brilliantly conducted by New York's young (37) Nicola Rescigno, gave every note the vividness of Technicolor. Chicago's top-hatted, diamond-sprinkled audience enveloped Soprano Callas in a hailstorm of applause. To land such a diva was a major operatic coup for Chicago. Maria had left her native Manhattan to live in Greece when she was 13, by 1948 was engaged by La Scala. Married to an Italian millionaire (building materials), she has unabashedly let it be known that...