Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last two months a 'wide variety of foreign observers" had seen the military prototype of a nuclear-powered plane flying over Moscow. For its part, the Pentagon was 1) skeptical that the Russians were already flying a nuclear plane, 2) well braced to ride out the propaganda storm if the Russians do fly the first A-plane and pull off some stunt such as circling the globe nonstop. Reason: While the U.S. is spending about $100 million a year in a slow development of the twelve-year-old nuclear plane program, planners have made a command decision that...
...indicate that a 'herd of mavericks is more herd than maverick. As developed by Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and half a dozen more, notably Jackson Pollock (see above), U.S. abstract expression might be compared to the hamburger and the Coke, which have also taken the world by storm. Hamburgers and Cokes are excellent in their ways, and so is abstract expression-but luckily the nation has other nourishment to offer as well...
...write this book," he said weeks ago, before the Kremlin clamped down. "These 40 years of storm were calling for an incarnation." In his token submission to Nikita Khrushchev and Pravda (TIME, Nov. 10-17), Pasternak recanted not a line of his book, expressed not a moment's regret that it has been published outside Russia. To a German reporter who saw him for a few moments after the Nobel announcement and the resulting political storm, Pasternak said: "I am sorry, I didn't want this to happen, all this noise . . . But I am glad I wrote this...
...Mayday, Mayday." The storm warnings that flew Lake Michigan's length changed that night into "whole gale" warnings. Winds from the southwest gathered speed, rose to 40, 50, then 60 m.p.h. The Bradley beat its way through the mounting waves into the next day and the dusk. By then, the heavy seas were surging with 30-ft. waves, smashing at the 31-year-old vessel. In the pilot house. First Mate Elmer Fleming, 43, heard a thud. He spun around and looked toward the stern. The vessel was sagging aft of midships. Fleming made for the radiotelephone and cried...
Those of the Harvard Community who heard about last night's Green Mountain raid raised a storm of protest. Jane Fletcher '59 commented, "I didn't really want to be a cheerleader very much myself, but I think that those girls who did have the energy should be allowed...