Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rusty silk usually askew. He went shod in the scuffed boots of a cowman no stranger to a corral. It was well known that when the captain appeared with one pants leg in and one pants leg out of his boot tops, the barometer was falling, the storm was on its way and everybody better watch out. He had little talent for staying unmussed...
...Anemic Case. From then on the controversy swirled off into a storm of legal maneuvers, press conferences and telegrams (the National Guardsmen got so bored doing nothing that they finally turned to threatening Northern newsmen with arrest for "inciting to violence," i.e., reporting the story). Orval Faubus fired off a wild-eyed message to the President of the U.S.: he thought his telephone lines were being tapped: he was sure that Federal authorities were plotting to arrest him; the situation in Little Rock "grows more explosive by the hour." To ward off all invaders, Orval Faubus de ployed his militia...
...fourth and final attempt to storm Cassino, 13 divisions of the Fifth and Eighth Armies, backed by overwhelming fire and airpower, smashed into the four German divisions clinging to the shattered defenses. At first the Germans held on, then retired to the north. It was only half a victory: Cassino had fallen, but the German Tenth Army got away...
...close to lowest ebb since World War II, and transocean charter rates are down about 50% from peak of Suez crisis. Should recession continue, it will run older, smaller ships off main sea routes. Some ships are already being laid up, but most operators hope to ride out temporary storm, are still placing orders for new ships...
...quite prepared for what is coming to me," said Altrincham as the storm broke about his head. "I can only hope that when the dust has cleared, the furniture will have shifted a bit." As the week wore on, the letters pouring into his own mailbox gradually turned favorable to Altrincham by a ratio of three to one. Letters to the working-class Daily Mirror were four to one in his favor, and even the middle-class Daily Mail, which at first received a rush of what-a-cad letters, found the mail turning more evenly to the lord...