Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is great rejoicing these days among liberals who say that the storm centering around Senator McCarthy has at last blown itself out to sea, or at least out of the newspapers. The "ism," they claim, has become a "wasm," and only time and a little effort are needed to clear away the debris. This attitude, appealing as it may be, underestimates the damage wreaked in the last few years--damage that cannot be repaired so long as legislative supports for hysteria remain unexamined, in the statute books...
Since world conditions change so rapidly, no one can predict what type of anti-subversive law will be needed in two years. A terminal date would force Congress to re-examine laws enacted in the middle of a storm that may well have passed...
...seemed, amid the urgent preoccupations of the cold war, like a cloud no bigger than a busy diplomat's hand. Then, suddenly, the dispute over Cyprus was a nasty, swelling storm of the kind that takes lives, topples governments and jeopardizes alliances. By last week, with Cypriots and Greeks inflamed against Britons, and with Greeks and Turks torn apart in a revival of an aged hatred, the case threatened to crumble the long southern flank of the NATO defense network. NATO's southern commander, U.S. Admiral William M. Fechteler, hastened to Athens and Ankara to examine the breach...
...rless' friends-a young baron who is a Storm Trooper in embryo-all this is philosophical proof "that merely being human means nothing." Author Musil is at pains to suggest that such dark impulses sprouting from the confusions of youth are part of growing up. Like a nightmare, the whole perverted episode has not really damaged young Törless-or has it? The boy had briefly "lost his sense of direction [but] an indefinable hidden disgust never quite left him . . ." Readers of this odd but provocative book may wonder whether this sentence does not apply to Old Europe...
...Bellame sailed north from the West Indies to pass the winter in the more comfortable shipping lanes off Newfoundland. Near Martha's Vineyard he impressed a Yankee fisherman to pilot his ship past Long Island. The new skipper, apparently unhappy, ran the ships aground on Norsett Barr during a storm...