Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reprieve is promised by the local weather bureau from the fierce northeast storm which lashed the Boston area yesterday with high winds and more than an inch and a half of rain...
...small-craft storm-warning flags were being whipped by 25-knot gusts when one of the divers went over the side to test conditions several fathoms down. His report: "It's bad down there. I had a hell of a time getting back." Root was urged to postpone his descent. Placidly munching cookies and drinking coffee while almost everybody else, was seasick, Root refused to change his plans: "No, I'm itchy about it now. And the more you wait, the more static builds up. It won't be rough down below...
...snow storms, originating from the combining forces of a northeast storm from Florida and a severe cold front moving down from Canada, are expected to blanket most of New England and cities along the coast from Delaware to Block Island. The Weather Bureau also mentioned possibilities of heavy snow over a belt from Alleghany, Garrett, and Washington Counties of Maryland northwestward through Pennsylvania into southern New York state...
Oxnam was a storm center in the recent controversy over alleged Communism in the Protestant ministry. He made a dramatic appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee, headed by Representative Harold Velde (R-Ill.) and submitted to eight hours of questioning on what Velde termed "Communist infiltration" in the ministry...
When, in his speech last Friday, President Pusey listed some of the University's contributions to the nation's welfare and defense, he was showing more than the desire to beat the Harvard drum. He exhibited a frank recognition that the storm over Harvard "softness" toward Communism is in part a problem in public relations, and that one way to weather it is to try to more accurately portray the University to the public...