Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Very Best Friends." As the storm swirled up, the State Department's White hurriedly issued another statement. The new pronouncement appeared to withdraw somewhat from the previous U.S. position. White summed it up: "We are not taking sides." At his press conference President Eisenhower added his soothing voice: "Here is a place where two of our very best friends are engaged in an argument with very great difficulty. Now, we are friendly to both, not only friendly in the sense of traditional friendship with these two peoples, but on top of that, both are vitally necessary to NATO...
...combination of hot air and cold political calculation can stir up a squall in almost any year, and such were the ingredients of the storm that swirled around the head of Vice President Richard Nixon. The cold calculation came from the Democrats, who have long made Nixon their favorite target. The hot air came principally from columnists and other pundits who reasoned that the Democrats had made Nixon a political liability and therefore Ike might drop him from the ticket. For Nixon, it was like being in the eye of a hurricane...
Last week President Eisenhower dispelled the storm with as flat a statement as a presidential candidate is ever likely to make about his prospective running mate. "Anyone," said the President at his news conference, "who attempts to drive a wedge between Dick Nixon and me is-has just about as much chance as if he tried to drive it between my brother and me ... I will say it in exactly the terms I mean: I am very happy that Dick Nixon is my friend. I would be happy to be on any political ticket in which I was a candidate...
...Hygiene Building, Stillman, and six other spots, the department does not have a center, convenient to the Yard, from which all of its services can operate. Thus, the Hygiene Building's 5 p.m. closing forces sick students to make a night-time trek to Stillman. During last Monday's storm the building closed at 2:30 p.m. and posted a notice directing emergency cases through snow, ice and wind to Stillman...
More than eighty people braved the storm Friday evening to attend an informal concert of the Composers' Laboratory in Paine Hall. The affair was arranged to provide Laboratory members with a chance to hear their recent works and to test them out on an audience--a necessary step in the development of young composers...