Word: maelstrom
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...academic maelstrom has formed around the new Zelaznik professorship for Holocaust and Cognate studies, which was created by a 1995 gift to Harvard by Kenneth Lipper, former deputy mayor of New York City...
Appointed as a lecturer in clinical psychology in 1959 after earning his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley, Leary's experiments with the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin were the subject of a maelstrom of controversy at Harvard...
...Whitewater closing in December 1992, Foster had promised to complete the corporate tax returns and return the Whitewater records to McDougal within 90 days. Given the maelstrom Foster had been in since arriving in Washington, it wasn't surprising that that deadline had come and gone. Late in June, McDougal finally received copies of the returns, along with a letter asking him to review them carefully for any inaccuracies. But how could he do that without the records...
...whole, the acting is fine, if it is a bit overdone. Stokers, Berne, Polen and Epstein do a good job in portraying the Gold clan in its glorious maelstrom of neurosis and fierce love for one another. The sets in which the characters sit, argue and agonize are marvelous. A salute should most definitely go to set designer Matthew Lavesque for the just-right yuppie Manhattan apartment, complete with a colorful DNA molecule model perched neatly on the television set--cheap symbolism, but it looks good...
...heat. Temperatures near the hypocenter, the ground point immediately below the explosion, surged to figures ranging from 5400 degrees F to 7200 degrees F; within a mile of the hypocenter, the surfaces of objects instantly rose to more than 1000 degrees F. Those caught in the middle of this maelstrom were the lucky ones. They died instantly, vaporized into puffs of smoke or carbonized into small, blackened, smoking corpses, mummified in their last living gesture...