Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...splinter political party: it will be in a coalition with Magsaysay's Nacionalistas, and if the coalition wins, will share in the spoils (presumably Romulo would be reappointed Ambassador to the U.S.). Said Romulo: "They say a wise captain doesn't take his ship through a storm, but makes a detour. I am making a detour...
...Storm Against the Saracens. St. Francis died in 1226, in his early 40s, but Clare lived on to be almost 60, subsisting most of the time on an ounce and a half of bread a day, serving her sisters at table and nursing them in sickness, praying late into the night and rising early to ring the bell for Mass. Twice she is said to have saved Assisi from invading armies. In 1234, when the Saracen soldiers of Frederick II scaled the walls of San Damiano by night, Clare confronted them in an open window holding the Sacrament. The soldiers...
...from half a dozen towns, but were helpless. Three workers and one fireman perished* and 40 others were injured. Solvents, cleaning compounds, acids and gases burst into angry, hungry flames that were whipped by a brisk west wind. Steel columns twisted and dipped like trees bowed by an ice storm. It was the worst fire in the history of Detroit, the worst in the U.S. for any single plant.' G.M.'s estimated loss: $70 million in plant, tools and other equipment. Livonia was insured for only $28 million...
...drought-stricken Texas last week, a dust storm blew up over the Government's $150-million emergency relief program. In his weekly Rails Banner, Editor Ernest Joiner declared: "Fully half of the aid given here has gone into the hands of wealthy men. This writer, for one, is damned tired of his hard-earned money going into the pockets of wealthy...
...after, a successful visit was paid, but the British Secret Service has still never sent Giskes an answer to his last message. When the book appeared in Britain early this year, it raised a small storm and a parliamentary demand for a full investigation. "It is contrary to the public interest." the government replied, "to publish details of the affairs of secret organizations...