Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...topple the Guatemalan government were supposed to fling open the gates at Aurora air base, the country's key military post, precisely at 1:30 p.m. A little before that time, 25 of the plotters drifted casually around; four dozen others crouched in nearby thickets, ready to storm in. At the appointed minute, the gates flew open-disclosing two tanks and a platoon of soldiers drawn up with automatic weapons ready. "We're sunk!" whispered one attacker. Other troops closed in on the conspirators in the bushes, and the whole crew was arrested...
...brilliant young pianist zipped vivacissimamente through the final movement of Beethoven's "Les Adieux" sonata. Impeccable in white tie and tails, he bowed to the storm of applause that swept Carnegie Hall, dutifully played three encores. Later that night, he could be seen walking down neon-gaudy Broadway. Just five blocks south of the august concert hall, he ducked into a cellar. Within a few minutes Concert Pianist Friedrich Gulda was on the bandstand, amid the smoke and clatter of Broadway's famed Birdland nightclub, playing jazz-cool, glittering and poignant as icicles. Sitting in with the Modern...
...Gulda's third visit to the U.S. since his ill-fated arrival in 1950. At the age of ten, in Vienna. Gulda was impressed into a Hitler Youth group, and that was enough under the McCarran Internal Security Act to land him on Ellis Island. After a protest storm in the press Gulda finally played-to rave reviews-and took the next plane home. His political history cleared up, he later gave about 200 concerts on tours of the U.S., Europe and South America...
Does cheating the Government make a doctor unfit to treat his patients? The question had Philadelphia's suburbia split right down its Main Line last week. Center of the storm: Surgeon Clare C. Hodge, 46, who came home last September after serving three months in prison for defrauding the U.S. of $166,000 in income taxes (between 1943 and 1950, he took in unreported fees totaling $432,000, paid taxes totaling only...
Said Hodge: "God gave me these hands and endowed them with some surgical ability [to help] suffering humanity." With that, he applied for reinstatement at Bryn Mawr Hospital. The directors turned him down just before Christmas. Then the storm broke. Expressing their "shock and displeasure," 27 of Bryn Mawr's medical staff urged the directors to back down; a majority of the hospital's other staff members joined in protest. Local organizations passed pro-Hodge resolutions. Seven local Protestant churchmen sent the directors an open letter: "[Hodge] has been judged, punished and returned to us . . . Shall we deny...