Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...storm broke on him just before a municipal election in August 1943. District Attorney Hogan, who had tapped Costello's telephone, reported the conversation which had ensued when one Thomas Aurelio called Costello the morning after Aurelio had been nominated for New York's supreme court...
Peekskill saw the first mobilization of the American storm troopers," said William Patterson, executive secretary of the Civil Rights Congress...
...most startling work in the group, apart from aesthetic considerations, is his pen drawing, "The White General," dated 1919. Standing against a background of human misery and brutality, is an exact representation of the Nazi of World War H--complete with Storm Trooper helmet and swastika insignia. Grosz saw things very clearly 30 years...
...trying not to displease anybody very much, Prime Minister Attlee seemed to have pleased almost nobody. After he revealed his proposals for cutting down government expense (TIME, Oct. 31), almost every section of the British press heaped on him a storm of abuse...
...midst of the storm, Jefferson refused the judge's conditions. Although "the college has even been maintained and operated exclusively for students of the white race," it would not accept the endowment, said its trustees, if it had to teach the superiority of Anglo-Saxon and Latin American races or bar Jewish students. After that the judge withdrew his offer. Jefferson seemed back where he found it. "The school is operating at a loss," said one of the trustees. "We plan to close ... at the end of the year, under present conditions...