Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another storm trooper entered and clicked his heels. 'Search that plane for Moscow gold...
...They entered a small building guarded by a man who looked like a storm trooper. The FBI man put Santa under a klieg light...
...pictures and sculptures that for the past 52 years have been drifting in from the bequest of wealthy Victorian Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey. In that time, the unhappy custodians of the Tate have willy-nilly acquired tons and acres of lowing kine, rearing horses, languorous ladies, idyllic landscapes and storm-beset ships-of-the-line...
...week's end the weather obligingly backed him up; a swirling storm hit the city, and dumped the third-deepest snowfall in history (19.6 in.) on its streets and rooftops. Parry beamed. In one hour, at the height of the storm, 3½ inches fell. The Weather Bureau predictions (unlike those issued before last December's record-breaking 25.8-in. snowfall) had been uncannily accurate, a fact which enabled the city to keep its streets open, its buses running, its sidewalks passable, and its citizens in such a mild state of discontent that they seemed almost happy...
Even before the kickoff in the National Football League championship this week, a driving storm had blanketed Philadelphia's Shibe Park. Gridiron markings were blotted out under four inches of snow. But television, radio and newsreel companies had paid $33,000 for rights to the game, and a postponement would have been costly. Commissioner Bert Bell ruled that first downs would be decided by referee's instinct instead of tape measure, and assigned extra judges to call out-of-bounds plays...