Word: hailstorm
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Never Too Late, by Sumner Arthur Long. Paul Ford's preternatural gloom at the thought of becoming a father at 60 provokes a two-hour hailstorm of pelting laughs...
Your Algeria. The tumultuous weather followed De Gaulle on his helicopter flight across western Algeria to the ancient Moslem city of Tlemcen, as recently as last year a fanatic stronghold of the F.L.N. rebels. Landing in a hailstorm, De Gaulle received a wildly enthusiastic reception from the city's overwhelmingly Moslem population...
...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...