Word: maelstrom
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...salt in it. Food supplies ran short. Cigarets were soaked, so the crew smoked dried tea leaves and fresh coffee rolled in pages torn from the Bluejacket's Manual. The auxiliary engine was useless. It was impossible to sail her. Day after day, a chip in a maelstrom, the 3070 tossed on the heaving Atlantic, battered by soft. waves, driven by the whims of one storm after another...
Said Herbert Hoover: "When victory comes after this war, we must jointly with our allies again try to lead the world to the promised land across this terrible maelstrom of conflicting forces...
...adds: "Three hundred and fifty-five days of the year, I don't question anything. ... I am more at home in this world that we have created than ever I was in that vast and confusing maelstrom that we call civilization...
Installment number two of the Class of 1946, an estimated 680 students, will wade through the annual maelstrom of a Memorial Hall registration today, upping the total of the largest entering class in Harvard history to approximately...
Sucker has no plot and needs none. It is just Fields trying to peddle a scenario to Esoteric Studios. He reads a scene, then plays it. Upshot: a maelstrom of slapstick, song, blackout. episodes, old gags, new gags, confusion. That much of it is truly comic is testimony to the fact that Comedian Fields is one of the funniest men on earth. Whether he is offering a cure for insomnia ("Get plenty of sleep"), refusing a bromo ("couldn't stand the noise"), nasally vocalizing ("chickens have pretty legs in Kansas"), meticulously blowing the head off an ice cream soda...