Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council's withdrawal from the National Student Association evoked a storm of local protest yesterday, but other Ivy League student government officials expressed agreement with the Council's action...
...interfere with the harmless customs of free citizens. Last week, writing the opinion for a decision exonerating four nudists, Justice Voelker-who is privately "revolted" by nudism-went after some offensive cops. Four carloads of flatfeet had raided the nudists' camp, "descending upon these unsuspecting souls like storm troopers, herding them before clicking cameras like plucked chickens." It was "indecent-indeed the one big indecency we can find in this whole case," and the "final irony" came when a warrant was sworn out that one of the cops was "the aggrieved victim of an indecent exposure. It seems that...
After football had ridden out the storm of protest against its brutality, Harvard coaches began to devise even more brutal plays. Yale was no laggard either; and the second half of The Game of 1892 saw the introduction of collegiate football to the "Flying Wedge." "Guards Back," "Tackles Back," the "Turtle Back," and other brawny plays soon followed. By 1894 the games were so gory that a two-year break in relations with Yale resulted...
After World War I, during which he served as one of the first pilots in the French naval air force, De Bisschop chartered a merchant ship and set out again on 'his wanderings. When his vessel foundered in a storm off the Azores, he went to China, became chief of the security guards in the French concession at Hankow in the 19205. There he teamed up with another French adventurer, Jean Tatibouet. Together De Bisschop and Tatibouet built a Chinese junk and for two years cruised the Pacific and Indian Oceans. They lived eight months among Papuan cannibals, were...
REAPERS OF THE STORM, by Elizabeth Lytfleton and Herbert Sturz (303 pp.; Crowell; $3.95), is almost worth buying for the dust jacket alone. Done up in sinister black, it bears a come-on as fetchingly phrased as the preambles of people who sell watches in bars: "Written secretly by two Americans visiting a small fishing village in Spain, Reapers of the Storm has had a perilous birth and an uneasy life. In the guise of writing a book in praise of the regime ... these two authors studied and listened to the people among whom they lived. They became achingly aware...