Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orleans police last week rounded up the latest in teen-age gangs: a band of "Storm Troopers" who for weeks had annoyed the upper-bracket suburb of Metairie by smashing street lights, throwing rocks through train windows, and general hell-raising. They carried mimeographed membership cards, in English and crude German, adorned with swastikas and pictures of Adolf Hitler. In their headquarters, an abandoned store, police found 4,000 rounds of 22-caliber ammunition, some shotgun shells, 36 knives, a rifle and two air rifles. The group's Führer was 15. Said he: "I have information that...
...Through storm and calm, for 10,000 miles, he sailed across two oceans. From Wellington, New Zealand to the Charles River, the Cook Islands' Chief Surgeon, his wife, two sons, and two crewmen lived for five months a cramped and uncomfortable life aboard a 48 foot ketch...
After five days the storm abated; two days of calm and clear followed, and then came a new hurricane, wilder than the first. One breaker flooded the Miru's 17-year-old diesel engine, which operated the bilge pump. For two days, Arrow, Donovan, and Davis took turns in a bucket brigade, carting water from the cabin to the deck...
Backed by a storm of angry janitors and maintenance men, local union officials yesterday charged the University with breaking employee-management agreements and cutting employee pensions without notice...
When Davison was abroad on his 1926 Sabbatical leave, the biggest storm in the glee club's history broke. The HGC bolted the Intercollegiate Glee Club contest after objecting to the required program each club had to sing...