Word: squallings
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...Turks, who more or less look upon Richard Nixon as their leader. Nixonites and Knowland-Warrenites got especially sore at each other during last year's presidential campaign. Never enthusiastic about Nixon's vice-presidential candidacy, Warrenites failed to come to his support when the "Nixon fund" squall broke. Then, after the election, Knowland took over control of Republican patronage in California. Since then, Senate Republican Policy Chairman Knowland has channeled into federal jobs several Californians who are in the bad books of Nixon's followers...
...superliner United States was turned over to U.S. Lines Corp. last week in the middle of a new squall over the cost of the ship. The line had paid $28 million, the Government $42 million in a subsidy, giving it the right to requisition the ship in an emergency as a troop transport. But for weeks Comptroller General Lindsay Warren has been complaining that the subsidy was $10 million too high, and that the line's ante should be raised...
...Bruce Parker and Evelyn Wolford, the world's long-distance water ski record. Trying to make a nonstop, 196-mile ski from Nassau to Miami behind a speedboat, the couple hit a squall, were spilled by 20-ft. waves after traveling about 135 miles...
...stock market ran into a heavy selling squall yesterday that handed it a setback equal to the greatest of the year. Nearly a billion and a half dollars was erased from the quoted value of all listed securities...
Custine reports that when a squall hit a flotilla of small craft carrying "chosen bourgeoisie" on an outing to Czar Nicholas I's seaside palace, scores were drowned. The newspapers suppressed the disaster, so as not to "distress the Czarina [or] imply blame to the Czar." By a similar procedure, when a serving girl was murdered in a back street, the police did not bother to report the crime, but were careful to make a few rubles by selling her body to medical students for dissection...