Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Navarre attacked by sea, land and air in the face of immense physical odds. High winds and storm clouds scattered his parachutists, rain delayed his infantry. By nightfall the villages were surrounded. But under cover of darkness the Viet Minh had filtered through the French lines, or disappeared into swampland hideouts. The battle pointed up the basic difficulty of valorizing the war in Indo-China: the Viet Minh are everywhere and nowhere; they wage war by sabotage, terror, propaganda and guerrilla action...
Tucked helplessly in an endlessly potential storm center of East-West politics, the amiable, ultranationalistic people of Burma need all the moral encouragement they can get. Last week Burma invited the U.S.'s ebullient uplifter Dale Carnegie to come and deliver a series of lectures on 1) courage, 2) systematic-mindedness, 3) noble character, 4) honesty, and 5) perseverance. He needs no introduction: Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People has long been a bestseller in Burma; its translator is none other than Prime Minister...
...Governor Gordon Persons publicly and profanely denounced the Advertiser's Political Writer Geoffrey Birt, it seemed to Editor Grover C. Hall Jr. that it was time for a change. For the first time, the Advertiser printed the words "son of a bitch" -and waited for a storm of protest from its readers. By last week the storm signals were down. Only five readers had written in, three of them criticizing the governor...
...Pasha, who "treated me like a child, sending me almonds and sugared sherbet, fruit and sweetmeats twenty times a day." Off the isle of Corfu he found he could take the lash of fortune as well as her caress. When the ship seemed certain to go down in a storm, and even the captain "burst into tears and ran below deck," young Byron, with as much bravery as bravado, "wrapped myself up in my Albanian capote (an immense cloak) and lay down on deck to wait the worst." On shore, his valor was heartily rewarded by the female population...
Then the marriage exploded in one of the worst scandals of the age. Annabella left Byron, and the word went around that she had discovered a love affair between her husband and his half-sister. A storm of public opinion drove Byron out of England, never to return. In Italy, he settled down as the lover of a draper's wife, Marianna Segati, wrote much verse (including most of his masterpiece, Don Juan) and many disgusted letters back to England about "the destruction with which my moral Clytemnestra hewed me down." But women he could not escape. They choked...