Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President answered mildly and clearly a storm of provocative questions about the McCarthy affair (see below...
...local tradition, the Easter Monday egg roll on the White House lawn, started in 1877 by Rutherford Hayes and abandoned twelve years ago by Franklin Roosevelt. The Eisenhowers really didn't know what to expect, but the gardeners began a week in advance preparing for the worst, installing storm fences, comfort stations and drinking fountains...
...Frenchmen aboard were far from happy. Premier René Mayer had started the week by threatening to resign, a tactic that persuaded the French Assembly into accepting a new $220 million emergency loan. This delayed the start from Paris, and the plane's pilot had flown through a storm instead of circling it in order to make connections with the Columbine in New York...
Though small boys may find it hard to believe, there is something to the old saw "This hurts me more than it does you." For at the very moment when he raises his hand to strike his son, the angry father may suffer such a violent (though subconscious) emotional storm that his arm drops to his side, paralyzed. He may even collapse in a heap on the floor...
...week's end, Pioneer's dust storm had about blown itself out. It agreed to sell its 2-0-2s and buy back a fleet of DC-3s. Said President Smith: "There are some things you do because you want to, and other things you do because you have to. This comes in the latter category...