Word: maelstrom
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...turn back the human tide, and unable to evacuate the chars before a cyclone roars through. Government advisories, officials in Dhaka claimed last week, enabled thousands of peasants to scramble to safety before the most recent cyclone struck. Yet at least 1.2 million of those caught in the maelstrom had no idea in advance that the whirlwind...
...close of Congress' 98th session two weeks ago, the Senate laid aside its rule against applause to give the Majority Leader a standing ovation. Retiring to pursue a full-time Presidential bid, the 18-year veteran left behind him a record of good-humored and effective leadership in the maelstrom that is Senate politics...
...that private, $100,000 homes are no longer sitting on privately controlled property. When officials moved in to claim the land for sunbathers and fishermen and to require that some of the houses be abandoned without any state compensation, the homeowners' wrath easily matched that of Alicia. A maelstrom of lawsuits is still raging...
...lead to a more sophisticated war." Duarte, whose own harsh experiences with Salvadoran reality may have tempered his sense of impatience, responds that "we are trying to get the people back to having faith and hope. We cannot offer miracles." But to pull El Salvador out of its violent maelstrom, something close to a miracle may be necessary...
Even if this stance is ironic, it leaves readers with hardly any place to stand. Events in A House in the Country are not only bizarre but vertiginous, a maelstrom around negation. Suppose, the novel demands, that one summer the elder Venturas decide to spend a day away from their estate at a picnic site that may or may not exist. They take all their servants and weapons with them (cannibals are said to maraud in the wilds, although no living family member can testify to having seen one), leaving their 33 pampered children alone and unprotected in the huge...