Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said reproachfully: "I thought you told me there wasn't anything hot going on." It was a brilliant, cloudless Armed Forces Day 1956-a day set aside for the services to parade their unity across the U.S.-and around Charlie Wilson's shaggy head had broken a storm of military disunity...
...newsmen at White Sands, N. Mex. The results were-at best-debatable. In one shot at a 500-m.p.h. aerial drone target, Nike registered a direct hit. In six other shots the Army said Nike scored shrapnel hits, claimed "kills" in each case. One Nike suffered an electronic brain storm and blew itself up. * Won after Leviero was the recipient of some other leaked documents: the notes of the Wake Island conference between Harry Truman and Douglas MacArthur...
...does almost nowhere else. Infamous the world over, Tokyo's thriving red-light districts, ranging from the lacquered pleasure domes of Yoshiwara to the noisome and disreputable turmoil of Shinjuku and Kamedo, have felt the chill winds of reform blow closer and closer, but each time the storm has passed...
...furor burst because Conant turned a 73-year-old trend into a revolution and left some 2000 dentists "without heritage." He made the Dental School a satellite of the Medical School, which caused such a storm of protest across the country that the new ste-up wasn't recognized by any dental association for seven years. And to cap it all, at a time when only 34 per cent of the American people are receiving adequate dental care, Conant cut Harvard's yearly dentist output from...
...Knew Too Much (Paramount), a remake by Alfred Hitchcock of his 1935 thriller, is almost buried beneath the weight of Technicolor, Vista-Vision and an endless Storm Cloud Cantata performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Covent Garden Chorus. Indulging his taste for contrast, Hitchcock takes an American family-so glossily normal that it might have popped out of a refrigerator advertisement-and sets it down in the eternal grime of Marrakech, Morocco. The family: Jimmy Stewart, a surgeon from Indianapolis; Doris Day, his songbird wife; Christopher Olsen, their typically cute son who thinks North Africa looks just like...