Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them there, headed back through town. Suddenly his way was blocked by three husky men. One grabbed him. He twisted, ran headlong into another, broke away, dodged across the street and was caught again, just a few yards from one of Clinton's two polling places. Under a storm of fists, Turner fell back against a car that was soon smeared with his blood. Then he went all the way down. Others, including two hysterical women, joined the kicking, clawing, screaming mob. A man and a woman from a nearby insurance office tried to help Turner...
...chief of Army Engineers, who rammed through (1943-45) the Army's tortuous, 478-mile Ledo Road ("Pick's Pike") through Burma, later (1946) began construction of a dam network project (the Pick-Sloan plan) to tame the rambunctious Missouri River, directed (1949) "Operation Snowbound" to relieve storm-clogged Northern states, while head of Army Engineers built the Air Force base at Thule, Greenland; in Washington...
...fortnight ago, at a huge rally in front of Rio's War Ministry, the November Front hailed Lott as "the general of the people" and presented him with a $5,000 gold-hilted sword. The rally brought on a storm of opposition charges against General Lott as a man of dangerous ambition. Last week President Kubitschek acted to cope with both the November Front and the outcries against it. First he issued an order forbidding military officers to mix into politics. As an example, the government placed a top November Front leader, Lieut. Colonel Nemo Canabarro, under barracks arrest...
This had a sobering effect for a few years, but in 1951 the CRIMSON once more pirated the sacred Ibis, and started a minor war which has continued on down to the present. The bird had fallen down of its own accord during a storm and had been turned in at the University Lost and Found, where a CRIMSON editor claimed it under false pretenses...
...reversed. The lake began to rise rapidly, spilling over into the mud flats and inundating the clay-and-sand islands that dotted its shallows. The rising water level created its own hazards. Grazing lands were flooded, and immense expanses of papyrus set adrift. In the course of one howling storm, 16 Kotoko fishermen in a four-boat flotilla were driven into a field of floating papyrus and held captive by the sinewy stems. The crew of one boat managed to cut their way out of the papyrus jungle when they drifted into shallow water; the other crews and their boats...