Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote in the friendliest of terms to Old Friend Churchill, explaining that he was resorting to a person-to-person message precisely because he did not want the U.S.-British policy differences to blow up a full-size storm to damage Anglo-American relations...
...eastern Colorado thousands of miles of fences are down-pushed over by drifting sand. Mudballs form over the eyes of cattle, and wild geese fall dead with their bills and throats packed with dirt. At Field, N. Mex. (pop. 25), a dust storm halted the funeral of 73-year-old Mrs. Alice Towner, who had walked toward her mailbox in a previous storm, been swallowed by the blinding dust, wandered lost and helpless, and finally died in a nearby pasture. Oklahoma City's Engineer W. W. Baker estimated that one storm last week deposited 185,000 tons of dust...
...Plus-Two: At 0300, after the moon sets, the Reds charge in through the dark. At 0400, they storm into Gabrielle. The French battalion commander falls. At dawn, De Castries thrusts tanks and a reserve Foreign Legion battalion toward the shrouded hill. Red bazookas stop the tanks but do not stop the legion. "Some Viets were dug in, so we cleaned them out," says a legion officer. "There were Viets everywhere, shoulder to shoulder. A Viet shot me. I fired my pistol at the Viet. He was dead, not me. Another Viet tried to bayonet...
...storm he has kicked up, Wurmeling still has the all-out backing of Chancellor Adenauer. He is pressing for stiffer divorce laws, better family housing ("Marriage flowers better in one's own home"), church-run marriage classes, "guidance offices" to patch up broken marriages. "They asked me whether I wanted a grown-up ministry," said Wurmeling last week. "I said no ... I like my shop small...
...year ago, the persecution of Protestantism in East Germany was at its height. Then Stalin died, and, like the sudden end of a spring storm, sweetness and light seemed to shine from Moscow. Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl received the bishops of the Eastern Evangelical Churches and a treaty of church-state peace was signed...