Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past eleven months as a military policeman in Alaska, Army Corporal G. (for Gerard) David Schine, 28, long to reign in U.S. military annals as the most famed noncombatant private of all time, was routinely discharged from the Army at New Jersey's Fort Dix. The unwilling storm center of last year's Army-McCarthy blowoff, Civilian Schine planned to take up his chores (for which he drew handsome salaries throughout his Army days) as president and general manager of his father's nation-spanning chain of five hotels (e.g., Florida's Boca Raton, Los Angeles...
...Wayne has stayed anti-Communist by remaining pro-female; whenever the Reds got too rough, he paid them no mind, just conjured up an image of "Baby," a composite of the girl-in-every-port, and chatted with her. Wayne pilots his old tub by night and fog, through storm and boiler stress, gun fight and slugfest, not omitting to make Mao's navy look like a fleet of Sunday oarsmen. But what matters most is that the end frame finds the hero safe in port (Lauren Bacall...
...estimate of "that old village atheist", Sinclair Lewis, erred only in regard to height. Whereas some of these new "churches" [Sept. 19] reflect a Middle Dow-Jones influence, or what's new in well-designed factories, others resemble surrealistic storm cellars...
...want former party members who refuse to answer competent questions about themselves and the party. But what about the ex-Communist who has confessed all? Last week, having answered that question for itself, American University in Washington, D.C. found itself in the middle of a new academic storm...
...Bhils, Kukis and other primitive people who live in dense jungles, wear huge turbans, and often eat their departed relatives as a mark of respect. Some 9,000 of the tribesmen and Hindu untouchables have in recent years declared themselves Christians (mostly Roman Catholic), and they have provoked a storm that may spread through India...