Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jordan is just a wide spot in the desert, with little claim to nationhood. But in one of those swift shifts of international politics, this vacuum in the sand has become the center of the storm, buffeted about by all the angry winds now loose in the Middle East. On one side press the claims of Iraq, its fellow Hashemite nation, and of Britain, its protector and sponsor, asking Jordan to side with the West. On the other side press Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia, out to frustrate the West, arousing passions by inflammatory broadcasts, buying agitators, and receiving...
...hook, out fish-the work falls quickly into a pounding rhythm that maddens the blood like drums. The deck-holes are filling fast with 20-pounders that flail like thunder as the blood-mist steams above their thousand throes. The run stops as suddenly as it began. A storm is rising, and the fish go down...
Last week, in an effort to still the storm, Sir David issued a soothing statement urging local school authorities to hurry up and see whether they could give their teachers a raise. But no one expected that his gesture would have much effect. The meek were up in arms and on the verge of the biggest display of teacher defiance in British history. As a matter of fact, Sir David would probably be in the soup no matter what he decided to do. "If he showed himself in our staff room," said one teacher from Peterborough, "he would be lucky...
Brooks would not predict the storm's duration but said that it would "very possibly" last beyond tonight. The Logan Airport Forecast Room, which predicted a dispersal two nights ago, has now suspended forecast on the duration of this storm...
...high-low pressure area extending over more than 1,750 miles of Atlantic coastline shows a 2 1/2 inch barometric pressure difference between northern and southern extremes. The local average temperature has fallen two degrees a day and cold air is forming in northern New England, but the storm which previously showed signs of moving has now resettled and is stationary...