Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Memorial Church was the center of a storm of controversy. The church had not been completed then, yet considerable opposition to the construction of such a memorial existed; a petition, sponsored by the CRIMSON, was signed by some three hundred students, graduates, and faculty members who were "unalterably opposed to the present plans for a memorial in the form of a chapel...
...squeezed the centimes until she had enough money to get a farm-and then bought a plot of lowland that the sea invaded every summer, carrying off the harvest before it could be gathered. Indomitable, Ma built a wall of mangrove logs to keep the sea away, but a storm came and broke the wall in a single night, and broke Ma too. She kept on talking of the things she was going to do ("We'll have a show place here some day!"), but after that she never did them, and neither did her children, Joseph and Suzanne...
...poems are therefore better left to speak for themselves. Arthur Freeman's work is easier to discuss, for it is much better. His humorous poems are truly funny rather than merely ingenious, the kind of humor at which we laugh without thinking first. His more serious offering, "Storm in Equinox," is one of the best things to come out of South Street of late. Gabrielle Ladd, a Wellesley senior, is the third poet, although her relationship to the Advocate is elusive...
Cosmic Radiation. Space's swirling storms of atomic particles cause mutations (mostly undesirable for survival) in bread mold, probably will have the same effect in humans if they strike the genes in the reproductive system. Unsuspected until this month's report by Iowa Physicist Dr. James Van Allen was the intense radiation storm encountered 600 miles from the earth by Explorer satellites. Still to be learned is whether this danger zone stretches from pole to pole. If so, the space traveler may have to hurry through it, as Dr. Simons says, "like running fast through a grass fire...
Died. Otto Abetz, 55, overbearing ambassador (1940-44) from Nazi Germany to the French puppet government at Vichy, onetime professed pacifist and champion of Franco-German solidarity, whose prewar activities in France, e.g., bribing writers and newsmen, helped reduce French preparedness during the gathering storm; by flames in the interior of his Volkswagen after a crash near Dusseldorf, which also killed his wife. Abetz was tried as a war criminal in 1949 and sentenced to 20 years at hard labor. Freed in 1954, he avoided politics, worked as a freelance writer on economics...