Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House last week, nobody bothered to roll eggs or pick eggs or butt eggs; it was much more fun to throw eggs at one another or to mash them into the grass. Calling Mr. Bailey. In preparation for the big romp, gardeners rolled out 3,000 feet of storm fencing to protect flower beds, shrubbery and the presidential putting green. (Many visitors draped themselves over the fence around the green in the hope of finding lost golf balls as souvenirs.) Shortly before noon, President Eisenhower appeared, smiling in the brilliant sunshine, and greeted the crowd from a small platform...
...will have considerable difficulty enforcing its decision against Jim Crow schools. Of 1,000 Texans sampled, 45% said they favored maintaining segregation either by disobeying the law or finding a way to circumvent it. In other words, said the poll, any attempt at immediate integration will "stir up a storm of protest in Texas verging on public disrespect...
...rocks at us." One state farm official reported: "I've lived in the so-called dust bowl since 1907, and I've never seen it in the condition it is in now." Explained Texas Conservationist Henry N. Smith: "It isn't so much what this one storm did-it's that this one came on top of five years of trouble...
...HIDDEN RIVER, by Storm Jameson (244 pp.; Harper; $3), is a novel about sleeping dogs and their fierce awakenings. During World War II, a young Frenchman is betrayed to the Nazis by an unknown person and executed as a Resistance leader. Five years later, his widowed old mother and two of his cousins still live in the sunny, sleepy Loire Valley, trying not to remember too much. Into this setting comes a messenger of the Fates, in the guise of a British intelligence officer who used to work with the dead Resistance hero. The officer cannot rest until the last...
Yorkshire-born Storm Jameson has been writing this successful kind of brimstone and heartbreak novel for 36 years (The Captain's Wife, The Green Man). She seems always to writhe right alongside her characters in all their anguished blindness. If she could ever appear to stand above them, Novelist Jameson might create true tragedy. As it is, she continues effectively enough in the task she set herself long ago-"not to cheat, but to record every item in the tale of mistakes, joys, cruelties, and simple meannesses that make up our dealings one with others...