Word: stormfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Henry Kissinger's cloud burst, and he suddenly found himself in the Watergate storm. In an extraordinary, intensely emotional press conference in Salzburg, Austria, on the eve of Richard Nixon's trip to the Middle East, the Secretary of State vented his anger at what he considered unjust charges against his honor. He threatened, in imperial tones befitting a President, to resign...
...that Italy's situation had become too grave for bathing-suit governments. Emergency measures that only a genuine government can apply are waiting to be taken. Italy, as Dante observed almost seven centuries ago in the Purgatorio, is once again "a vessel without a pilot in a loud storm." Unless serious steps are quickly taken, it may well sink before the winds and waves abate...
...when they come they are fresh and funny. Figaro enters not from the wings but from-the audience, beginning the Largo al factotum at about row S. In the lesson scene Rosina hits a high C and the glass in Bartolo's hand shatters. During the Act II storm, Bartolo's hat and umbrella are swept skyward by the wind (on a wire, of course...
...hard to say whether Slingerland resigned out of pride or because she thought the move would accomplish something, but most council members and U Hall observers seemed to regard it as an unusual exercise in futility. After the storm blew over, the council gave Expos a little more money and sent the office a nice conciliatory note--and next year, all freshmen will take Expos, under a new standardized curriculum. The whole affair is harldy likely to make anyone think that stormy resignations get things done at Harvard...
...winds outside grew stronger. This enabled the structure to better withstand high winds. Although the pressure in the bubble during the Christmas recess had been reduced, the official University report states that the automatic system pumped more pressure into the bubble as the winds from the winter ice storm increased...