Word: maelstrom
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Dwight Eisenhower has been heard to refer to his oval, pastel-green White House office as "the maelstrom." Like other Presidents before him, he chafes at the number of visitors and routine chores (including some 200 signatures a day) that drain presidential time and energy away from the task of setting and steering the nation's course. He has succeeded in snipping away a little red tape (e.g., he shifted to the Chief of Naval Operations the chore of signing naval-officer assignment papers), but every now & then a presidential aide will hear him bark like a drill sergeant...
Back in the maelstrom last week, the suntanned President looked healthy and rested after a nine-day vacation in Georgia. The office had a new look, too: a-huge, bright-colored Japanese silk screen, a present from Crown Prince Akihito, stood before the fireplace. But the endless torrent of people and papers still flowed, and the vacation-time backup made the flow even stronger than usual...
After 24 hours of pounding, the ship's quartermaster ordered all who could to swim for their lives. Fifty brave souls obeyed, among them Langdon Harris, 32, the only American aboard. As each bobbing head drew clear of the oil-covered maelstrom, Lebanese fishers plunged into the rollers and towed the survivors to shore. Langdon Harris and a ten-year-old French boy whom he held in his arms were among the 35 to reach the shore alive; 17 were drowned or smashed to pulp on the rocks...
...surprised to find a dense crowd milling around on the lawn. When the group eventually thins out enough to cram itself into the dining room for dinner, it sometimes includes a hapless guest who came to the wrong house and found himself swept into the genial Greek maelstrom. Such lost souls generally look to Skouras like old friends. "Haven't seen r you for a long time," he will shout. "How's / everything in St. Louis...
...England family as about a group of symbols and ideas which happen to be residing in the bodies of a New England family; his characters never speak for themselves, their earthly selves, but always for their symbolic selves, and for the author.) The son returns and stirs up the maelstrom of hatred and misunderstanding which is basic in his family. His eldest brother hates him; his sister commits incest with the eldest brother in the course of trying to persuade him to be reconciled with the prodigal; the second son, a parson, wrestles in agony with the problem of what...