Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cross. Mas sachusetts' Governor Christian Herter de manded an apology to Worcester. Fund officials in all three cities acknowledged that they had turned only token sums over to the Red Cross. But they pointed out that the special funds went toward replacing losses suffered in the storm, edu cation of orphans, patching roofs...
...decision against TVA stirred up a storm. AEC now buys its power from TVA. But by 1957, expanding AEC plants at Paducah, Ky. and Oak Ridge, Tenn. will need another 600,000 kilowatts of power, much more than TVA can supply. Instead of building up TVA to carry a bigger load, the Administration wants AEC to sign a 25-year contract with two big private-power outfits, Middle South Utilities, Inc., and the Southern Co. Together, the two plants would build a $107 million power and transmission plant at West Memphis, Ark., on the western edge of TVA territory, about...
...June 5, General Dwight Eisenhower later wrote, "our little camp [at Portsmouth, England] was shaking and shuddering under a wind of almost hurricane proportions." The worst June storm in 20 years raged over the Channel; already the invasion had been postponed a day, and now there seemed no choice but to delay for another fortnight, at least, until the tides were right again. Heavyhearted, Ike splashed through the rain to a fateful 4 a.m. meeting with his meteorologists and top commanders. An agonizing choice was posed by the latest forecast: a brief break in the storm, perhaps 24 hours...
Tensely, the assembled Allied command looked to Ike for decision. In such weather, airborne and amphibious landings could be disastrous; the storm, resuming, might isolate the leading elements cross-Channel. On the other hand, a fortnight of delay would demoralize 2,000,000 pent-up troops, tangle intricate plans, and perhaps tip off the Germans. The conference lapsed into silence while Ike briefly pondered the dangers. Then he looked up, his face brightening. "Well," he said...
...Japanese Diet last week staged the roughest and most disgraceful brawl in the two years since Japan regained her sovereignty. For the first time in the Diet's 64-year history, Tokyo's metropolitan police were called to restore order. In the eye of the storm, yet seemingly untouched by it, was astute, crusty and supremely confident Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, 75, whose friends and admirers call him the ablest and most important figure in today's Japan, and whose foes call him a "shameless dictator...