Word: maelstrom
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...ship, containing 23 men, had plunged from the crash 1,000 feet higher into the air, and then, with a sickening, sliding motion it had started to earth while gas-tanks, oil-cans, girders crashed about. It landed near a grove with 22 survivors. At some point in the maelstrom, Lieut. Sheppard was thrown from the hulk. His body was found a mile from the main wreckage, a bit of guy-rope in one hand, a bit of rigging in the other...
...educational problems posed by the World concerned only New York City, where the perplexing question of finding a seat in school "for every child" has been miserably embroiled in the maelstrom of party politics. But the subject, the principles involved arc germane to almost every large city...
...American Legion Weekly decided to mark the passing of the first decade since the Great War flung the world into the Maelstrom of Mars*. It wrote to various individuals in various countries, asked them to reply to the question: "What did the World Gain by the World War?" Excerpts from the answers: Newton D. Baker, U. S. Secretary of War during the Wilson Administration: "I believe it is possible now to say that the world is at last convinced that the balance of power theory is an unstable basis for world peace and that international cooperation is the only other...
...this outlawry of love, they turn to less frantic dalliance. The wife seeks balm of Gilead in the arms of a theatrical manager; the husband pins his hopes for philandering on a street walker. But they miss their erotic apoplexy. Eventually they drift back to each other, into the maelstrom. They must return to the bonds of holy acrimony. Marriage, they find, is the penalty for those in love...
...seek to rob the German people of all that is left to us?unity of the nation." (Bravo's from all except the Com- munists.) . . . "The whole nation must at last be filled with the realization that unless the people and the Reich are to sink into a hopeless maelstrom of annihilation the hour for the utmost sacrifices now has come. We must realize that the question to be or not to be lies for us in our financial, problem. This being the case, it seems to me inconsequential and superfluous to deliver a long speech about a program. Time...