Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dramatic fight between Taftmen and Ikemen for the nomination, the most intense fight in either party since the Democratic Donnybrook of 1924. The political backroom deals of Brazos County, Texas, became as familiar to Ike as the Battle of the Bulge. He was in the center of the storm when the leadership of the Republican Party was torn down-since then a new leadership has been constructed around...
...aide, Colonel Alexander Hamilton, 24, riding off to intercept the traitor, calmly ate dinner, did his best to comfort Arnold's hysterical wife, and within three hours revamped the defenses of Arnold's exposed post-the Hudson narrows at West Point -so that the British could not storm it. When mutinies broke out among Pennsylvania and New Jersey troops in 1781, Washington suppressed them sternly, not because he was harsh by temperament or insensitive to the sufferings of his men, but because he knew that hesitation would mean disaster...
...reverse is true: the Polynesians sailed to Peru. To prove it, the Miru journeyed engineless 6,750 miles from New Zealand to Peru via a current that flowed in exactly the opposite direction to the one used by the raft Kon-Tiki. This part of the voyage took 67 storm-tossed days...
...during the summer. He wanted to test a thesis of his on the trip from New Zealand to Peru--that the currents which took the Polynessians across the Pacific also went the other way, and they could have returned to Peru merely by shifting currents. It took him 68 storm-battered days to reach Peru...
...shipowners see a storm brewing, the Japanese government sees nothing but fair weather ahead. Recently the Ministry of Transportation announced that government plans called for a 4,000,000-ton fleet by 1956, with the monthly sailings expanded to 44 on eleven routes (the same number of routes as prewar). Estimated cost of the program: $500 million, to come from a government spending program and private banks...