Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laski is not a newcomer to Harvard. In 1916 he came here from London to teach Political science and to study at the Law School. During the Boston police strike of 1919 he publicly expressed sympathy with the strikers, and drew a storm of protest from the Boston public. President Lowell defended him before the public, but reprimanded him privately. Laski returned to London a year later...
...creating more than a mild flurry of editorial comments or oratorical farewells. But Communist leaders in their world behind the Iron Curtain fare differently. Because so little information about their lives is allowed to leak out, Red bigwigs can scarcely go away for a country weekend without creating a storm of speculation-on either side of the Curtain-that they have been purged, exiled or demoted in disgrace...
...week Croil Hunter, boss of Northwest Airlines, took another course. His airline sued the Glenn L. Martin Co. for $725,000, charging that five Martin 2023 which it had bought in 1947-48 were defective. The wing of one of them, said Northwest, "tore off in flight," during a storm, killing 36 passengers and crewmen near Winona, Minn., last Aug. 29. Another 202 broke a wing spar the same day but landed safely...
...British Admiralty turned a blind eye to all this, so long as it took place on the Continent. But conservative officials were dismayed when Nelson took London by storm, flaunting like a battle-prize his lusty and pregnant mistress. Poor, respectable Lady Nelson took a brief look and fled. After a brilliant victory at the Battle of Copenhagen, Nelson set up house in the country, with the Hamiltons. Nelson himself seemed to be settling into the role of a country squire...
...hurricane of charges and countercharges whirled through Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week while pickets chanted, prayed and shouted on the sidewalks outside. At the storm's center, 2,800 delegates to the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace-Communists and both calculating and befuddled followers-wallowed in a sea of windy "peace" talk. In all the tumult, the delegates and their gusts of fog-laden dialectics could at first hardly be heard...