Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clouds broke over the countryside around Williamstown, Mass.. five Williams College students out for a walk scurried for the shelter of a haystack. There, while the rain droned on, they earnestly discussed three topics: religion, Asia, and their future. Before the storm ended on that summer day in 1806, they had decided to dedicate themselves to the work of bringing the Gospel "to a barricaded heathendom" in foreign lands...
...many students who are now speaking out against mob rule may well bring about Miss Lucy's reinstatement after the storm has passed. But regardless of future actions, proponents of gradual integration should not be dismayed by the tempest at Tuscaloosa: the disgraceful treatment of Miss Lucy should serve as a lesson in the fine art of integration...
While the nationwide storm over Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer seems largely to have subsided, a few students and alumni of the College evidently enjoy trying to thunder away in protest over the atomic scientist's recent appointment as William James Lecturer for next year. The protests would barely call for a reply--if they did not continue a regrettable defamation of a man who is by all standards loyal, deeply intelligent, and certainly qualified to lecture in philosophy and psychology...
Amid growing storm and scandal throughout the nation, Huey served three years as governor, building 8,500 miles of roads, distributing 600,000 free schoolbooks, teaching 100,000 illiterate adults how to read and write so that they could qualify as kings. Huey dispensed thousands of jobs to consolidate his power, converted the state police into a semiprivate army, and ran up the state debt from $11 million to more than $100 million. Huey called the state legislature "the finest collection of lawmakers money can buy." Earl's contribution was often to placate or scare the lawmakers...
...over. Like a Field of young Indian Corn, which long Fair weather and Sunshine had enfeebled and discolour'd, and which in that weak State, by a Thunder Gust of violent Wind, Hail and Rain seem'd to be threatend with absolute Destruction; yet the Storm being once past, it recovers fresh Verdure, shoots up with double Vigour, and delights the Eye not of its Owner only, but of every observing Traveller...