Word: stormfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...storm center of last week's action was the Socialist newspaper Republica, which was seized by its Communist typesetters and then shuttered by the Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.). Since the Portuguese revolution in April 1974, the well-organized Communists have gained what amounts to virtual control over the nation's television, radio and most of its principal newspapers, which were taken over by the state when the government nationalized the banks last March. For weeks the Communists had also been trying to take control of the editorial policies of Republica, one of the last non-Communist papers...
...Athletic Department has weathered the storm fairly well. It has started to provide a respectable women's program while continuing to achieve its basic aims in men's sports...
Political Storm. In France the merger has touched off a political storm. Communists called the deal "sabotage," and Gaullists termed it a "deception." Nonetheless, the deal promises to relieve a drain on the public budget; CII may have chewed up as much as $500 million in government funds over the past 8% years. A purely European solution, like a full merger with Philips of The Netherlands and Siemens of West Germany, would have left the French in a decidedly minority position and without access to the American market, which its marriage with Honeywell Bull now promises...
...aloofness you sense when Smithies says he spends his free time "rowing boats and toiling in my garden," as though the joys of domesticity in Belmont, like England, are a little too structured for his taste. But that didn't stop the CIA letter from kicking up a minor storm...
Through a conflagatory storm: "Stromboli!" "Stromboli...