Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Local police, though bullied by the storm, would not give ground to College students and promised that cars parked on the wrong side of the street, as well as those in the middle, would be towed away, "if we can get around...
Eden won, by the usual 60-vote majority. But the vote could not make up for the government's loss of prestige. Said the Tory Daily Telegraph of Eden's humiliation: "It was a storm that will echo long and hard." When, two days later, the government went on to arrest and deport the Greek patriarchal leader on Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, many Britons took it as Eden's desperate attempt to placate critics within his own party, who wanted the government to do something-do anything-bold...
Biggest, brawlingest and richest ($7,975 in prizes) local art annual in the U.S. is held by Chicago's Art Institute. Last week, as usual, Chicago's 59th annual blew up in a storm of local outrage. Reason: of the 24 cash awards (picked from 2,027 works submitted), 18 went to relative unknowns, e.g., the top painting award ($1,500) was won by Canadian-born Anna P. Baker, 27 and two years out of art school, for a hectic, minutely squiggled abstractionist canvas titled High Frequency Ping. Almost every big-name Chicago artist finished...
...means of transportation were hampered by the storm. Flights at Logan Airport were cancelled at 2 p.m., and the field is not scheduled to reopen before 7 a.m. this morning...
...staff at the Blue Hill Observatory concluded that there have been only three blizzards of similar ferocity since the storm...