Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to information that the Radicals have been gathering for months, Perón decided last year, about two months before top army officers vetoed his plan to make his wife Vice President, that he needed some sort of militia or storm-trooper organization. The President himself drew up a confidential "Workers' Defense Plan" to "defend the government in the event of military action against it." Five thousand descamisados of "absolute confidence" were enrolled, divided into "shock troop" detachments, "special mission" units and "reserves...
Last week Composer Partch brought out his latest 43-tone work. An audience of 700 braved a California storm to hear his King Oedipus, based on a William Butler Yeats translation of Sophocles' play. Explained Partch: "The tone of the spoken word and the tone of an instrument are intended to combine in a compact emotional and dramatic expression, each providing its singular ingredient...
...Sztalinvaros, a youth brigade "accomplished their work norms even in a snow storm...
...storm roared on, a Coast Guard radar station at Chatham, Mass. picked up a strange "target" - the halves of the ship seemed to be washing about in Chatham shoals 25 miles from where they were supposed to be. A low-flying search plane investigated, and read the name Pendleton on the broken vessel's bow. Only then did the Coast Guard realize that a second tanker-a sister ship of the Fort Mercer -had also split in two. The ship's radio was dead and the sections had been drifting for hours...
Meanwhile, the Yakutat rescued four men from the Fort Mercer's bow. Thirty miles away, the cutters Eastwind and Acushnet took men off the stern. By the time the storm subsided, 14 men from the broken tankers were lost. Of the four pieces of two ships only the Fort Mercer's stern remained afloat. It was taken into Narragansett Bay with 1,470,000 gallons of oil still in its tanks, the cargo pumped out, and then towed to Brooklyn...