Word: storme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...IOWA. A spring storm last April nearly ended Robert D. Ray's political career when a twin-engined private plane in which he was a passenger crashed in an Iowa field. Ray's ankle was shattered in the accident, and the 40-year-old Republican moderate still limps. But his campaign did not. The one-time state G.O.P. chairman moved handily into the spot that existing Governor Harold Hughes had hoped to reserve for the Democratic candidate, State Treasurer Paul Franzenburg...
Center of the Storm...
...leaders of the Soviet Union undoubtedly knew that their invasion of Czechoslovakia would anger and dismay not only Moscow's enemies, but many of its friends around the world. The Russians doubtlessly also calculated that the storm of protest by other Communist parties would soon subside, just as it did after Hungary in 1956. After all, the tradition of loyalty to the "Motherland of the Revolution" is long, emotional and prudent. As the world's second greatest power, Russia can provide better than anyone else the money, arms and technical aid that struggling Communists in other countries need...
...worried. Christina Crawford, one of the stars of the soap opera The Secret Storm, had been rushed off to the hospital for emergency surgery. Who would fill in for her? Mother, of course, for Mother is Dowager Screen Queen Joan Crawford. Price was no problem; Joan was happy with union minimum. But how could a 60-year-old woman pass for the 27-year-old she was to play? No problem either. A session with the makeup man and a youthful hairdo, plus her own well-preserved looks, turned the trick for the four segments Joan will appear in. After...
...invariably of humble birth. He may be called the Demon Lover. In Ten-Thirty on a Summer Night, he is a Spanish workman on the run for killing his wife and her lover; he is rescued by the heroine in dramatic circumstances and fondly described as "her miracle, the storm murderer." In Moderate Cantabile, he is a French workman, again mysteriously connected with a recent murder, again with a sinister power over the heroine, who is frequently disturbed by "the silent agony of her loins." In L'Amante Anglaise, he turns up as the woodcutter Alfonso-an Italian this...