Word: maelstrom
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...reach an a priori assumption that "more for the money" is a practical possibility, there is even less justification for an official attitude nonchalantly glossing over the entire matter. Such a guarded status quo too easily becomes accepted as inviolate by a student population caught bodily in the rapid maelstrom of life in Cambridge...
When Hedda walks into this shabby maelstrom at 9:30 in the morning, she sets the tone of the day's activities with a brisk "Good morning, slaves," to her staff, sweeps into her office, climbs into more comfortable shoes, and settles down to the morning mail and the notes prepared by her legman, a University of North Carolina Phi Bete named David ("Spec") McClure...
...first inkling came with the post-Thanksgiving snowfall and the vague early hint of sleighbells. As the undergraduate went through the motions of buying presents in Boston's Washington Street maelstrom, watching his thinning wallet and putting a warm cover on his thinning hair, he stayed somehow apart from the festive momentum that was gathering speed in the newspaper ads and New Yorker cartoons...
Reinforced by American military aid, the nationalist armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek are currently grinding down the resistance of Chinese Communists in a grim civil war for the control of China. Ostensibly, Chiang will introduce a progressive, democratic government when China emerges from the maelstrom. Taken in by slick Chungking double-talk of a new freedom for China, the United States has actively supported the Kuomintang government not only in hopes of destroying feudalism in China, but also of checking the spread of Communist influence in Asia. In its zeal, however, to boost China into the twentieth century...
Between 6,000 and 11,000 feet, a thunderhead is a maelstrom of vertical drafts which can toss a plane up or down at the rate of 4,500 feet a minute. Above 14,000 feet, the rain turns to ice and the storm becomes a white blizzard...