Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile-per-hour winds will whip through Cambridge until early evening on the tail of yesterday's sleet storm, the weather bureau predicted last night. The rain should end by early morning, follows by more snow and sleet...
...sardonic leer and characteristic aplomb steal the show whether he is abducting a woman, riding gleefully on the swinging church bells, or swooping down from the sky to save Miss O'Hara from the hangman's noose. Toward the picture's end, as a mob of Parisian beggars storm Notre Dame's doors, Laughton climbs to the roof and hurls huge building blocks down on the crowd as he howls with maniacal laughter. For a finale, he overturns a cauldron of molten metal into the gutters leading to the cathedral's gargoyle rain-spouts. It blows onto the mob while...
Thomas Sugrue has written a provocative article in the Protestant Christian Herald, as reported by TIME, Jan. 21. What or whom it will provoke is anybody's guess ... I think it conceivable that a storm of protest may descend on his head, with most of the protestants being Catholics. He may find himself castigated as a Roman Benedict Arnold or worse, a Blanshard-in-Pope's-clothing. And yet, his conclusion that men of good will on both sides of the fence should unite in tearing down the fence seems to me to make a lot of sense...
Cold Outside. Near Alice, N. D., after his creamery truck stalled in a blizzard, Ray Gillette comfortably sat out the 29°-below-zero storm in the insulated refrigerator compartment...
...Tunisia's militantly anti-Communist trade union went out on strike, followed by many workers of the Communists' own union. At Mateur, railhead for the French naval base city of Bizerte, a crowd of 2,000 angry demonstrators surged out of the yellow-walled native district to storm police headquarters. For 45 minutes, the French held firm, refusing to fire as the mob swarmed over their tanks, smashing ports and prying open the turrets. "I'm going to fire," a young tank captain shouted to his commanding officer. "I can no longer be responsible for the safety...