Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rasmussen family, used to the simple life, was completely storm-tossed by the invasion. Anne-Marie's mother stayed mostly at home and watched her flower beds get trampled. Only the importation by the Rockefellers of four publicity men from the U.S. (one of whom promised to signal from the front door of the church when Anne-Marie said her jo) enabled the newsmen to get their stories while ensuring a little privacy to the participants...
...performance unfolded, Laughton's Lear never forgot that his was a family tragedy; even the first-act simpering made sense, for it showed a fool-father truly stupid enough to be gulled by his ugly daughters, Regan and Goneril. Then, as the king wandered mad through the storm, deserted by his daughters, the performance departed the norm again. Laughton's king was strangely calm and compelling. Rarely was he moved to the familiar, passion-torn shrieks of other Lears. His fantastic monologues with himself sounded almost conversational: "Let the great Gods, that keep this dreadful pother...
Many Englishmen, including G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Galsworthy and the Webbs, pleaded in vain that Casement's life be spared. When he was hanged, a storm of anti-British feeling rose among the Irish in the U.S. just at a time when the British were eager to get the U.S. into World War I on their side. Something had to be done and quickly, the British government decided, to discredit the name of Roger Casement. Soon prominent figures on both sides of the Atlantic began to hear strange tales about Casement's scandalous "black diaries...
...lads who hurtle their old Mercs around too screechingly (turning on the afterburners) are High-school Harrys. Well-dressed and popular men are cool dads and hard cats. But the answer to every coed's prayer is a king or snow job. Many a coed, dating up a storm, gets snowed (or sewed) for an infatuated spell called snow time (if her king is too cool, she may have to shovel out the snow). During this romance, only a bad-mannered gnome or mullet would try to hook a snake (ask for a date with the snow king...
...Munich's Konigsplatz, where storm troopers once goose-stepped, 40,000 Christians assembled last week in a gathering that dramatized for Germans both a saddening split and a heartening healing. The meeting was the ninth Congress...