Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imperious thrust of unblushing theater mated to unsoftened truth. It also achieves the illumination born of compulsive groping, prodding and clawing in dark places. In it O'Neill has managed to apply a famous phrase of Addison's-to ride in the whirlwind yet direct the storm...
...steel-shod Russian jackboot heeled down on Hungary this week, stamping and grinding out the vestiges of a daring young democracy. A force of 4,500 Soviet tanks, crack paratroops, MVD storm guards, and a quarter-million Red army infantrymen drawn from the remote wastes of Muscovy swept through the brown fall countryside, overwhelming towns and villages, smashing isolated Hungarian army resistance, and sealing off the country...
Since not even all Communist leaders are alike, the Kremlin tries to put their differences to work. The result is something like an old-fashioned cuckoo clock with a smiling face emerging to indicate sunshine and a dour face to indicate storm. The idea used to work like clockwork, too: dour or smiling, the face was still Communist. But the leaders whom the Kremlin now has to call on are men.who have suffered for their deviations, Marxists with the mark of Communist prisons on them, and ideas of their own. The men called back to power in Hungary last week...
...Florentines into the streets to celebrate a victory over Roman bureaucracy and a triumph for local art and tourism. The Italian government, which had assembled 33 Italian masterpieces* for a good-will tour of Washington's National Gallery and Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, had bowed to the storm of protest from Italians who wanted their treasures kept right at home, suspended plans to send the show abroad until scientific tests could be made to guarantee that no harm would come to the traveling masterpieces...
Meanwhile, back in the plane, everyone has forgotten about the pretty stewardess from Panama who was doing a good job until she fell out of the plane during the storm. And there is the skeptical Las Vegas hood who, unlike the audience, knows for certain there is no chance of getting out of the jungle...