Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aisle has arisen to question the motives of those military men, whether they be General Eisenhower or General MacArthur who made miscalculations, if any were made." By thus pointing to the two generals-who also happen to be prominent Republicans-Johnson hoped to help his party weather the Yalta storm...
...melancholy chant, full of the flavor of steaming rivers and hot forests, floated from the choir as the priest began the Mass. Suddenly, like the rumbling of a far-off storm, a drum joined in. "Ezè sè kènzapa," they prayed together. "We implore you, Our Lord...
S.O.P. In Milwaukee, after listening to testimony that John S. Hanley drank to excess, threatened to leave his wife, failed to assume domestic responsibilities, refused to hang storm windows, shovel snow or cut the grass, Judge Robert C. Cannon dismissed Mrs. Barbara Hanley's divorce suit, told her she was not being specific enough...
...popular outrage by seeking closer relations with the Israelis. And a "Balkanization" of the Arab states, if it did occur, would hardly promote stability in the area. In the absence of real peace, the Israelis can only prepare for the worst and hope that they can ride out a storm. For if the storm breaks, it will be a violent...
...saws, age alone knows caution, and it is the adventurous young who storm for change. But in this novel about the political Trimbles of Trimble, Ohio, it is the son and not the father who is the conservative. A full-blooded international career of oil wildcatting, marital freewheeling and ambassadorial roving has left 52-year-old John Peyton Trimble irrepressibly convinced that "experimentation" is the first rule of behavior, "essential to the courage to be oneself." His politically gifted son rigidly practices a contrary rule: "Never bet against the house-don't be a sucker-be the house...