Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against the Storm. The President and his Administration moved and planned, but not enough to still the storm of criticism across the land. "The basic reason we're behind the Russians," cried a major defense contractor, "is that we haven't gone all out." Electronics and airframe experts angrily recalled the casual attitude of Defense Secretary Wilson toward research and development...
Jimmy Hoffa had to weather a temporary storm of Senate committee accusations, court injunctions, and ultimatums from the AFL-CIO to achieve one of the most powerful executive positions in organized labor, but his victory will come as a surprise to no one. One thing, however, is certain: Hoffa is now in a fight that started, rather than ended with his triumph at Miami Beach last week...
...expanding porridge of the barley stowed below, those of the Pamir's crew who had escaped the fury of the pounding wreckage clung desperately to nets on the heaved-up windward side of the already sinking ship. When the Pamir went down, just two hours after the storm struck, many of the crew were already dead; some, swimming or clinging to debris in the water, were sucked down as the vessel sank; exhausted, others gave up soon afterward...
...storm broke, instantly, violently, as if with one light touch theologians had gone up in spontaneous combustion. The mildly questioning monk turned into a national hero. Rough German humor entered his manner: "If I break wind in Wittenberg," he said, "they smell it in Rome." Soon he boomed his great battle cries: "I have been born to war, and fight with factions and devils. [I] am the rough forester to break a path and make things ready...
...Roots (Barbachano Ponce; Edward Harrison). The wind is blowing the world away. Over the cold, dry plain of Mexico, the dust devils march in pallid ranks like ghosts of the land-ravaging conquistadors. Into the storm an Indian leans, and with his mattock chops a hopeless furrow which the wind fills silently behind him."Who digs the land,"the Indians say, "digs his own grave." He pauses, arrested in a Mexican Angelus. Somewhere in this howling world, in a bare mud hut, his child is crying in a basket, and by a tiny fire his wife slaps stolidly...