Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caribbean, four days out of the Cuban port of Mariel, a storm struck the Euzkera. She sank so swiftly that only twelve men & women had time to climb into the one lifeboat that got away. Six days later, the Norwegian motorship Caribe sighted the lone lifeboat off the coast of Nicaragua. She took the survivors aboard, headed for Cura...
With such slick tricks as its new records, S. & S. feels sure that it will weather the storm now buffeting bookmen. S. & S.'s two guiding heads, tall, affable Richard L. Simon, 49, and intense, hard-driving M. (for Max) Lincoln Schuster, 51, are a formidable team, bubbling with ideas. In the words of one associate: "Max gets an average of 80 ideas a day; at least one a month is superlative...
...Pacific cargo and passenger fleets were caught in port; about 200 were at sea and would be tied up the minute they docked in West Coast ports. Hawaiians and Alaskans, who know what it is like to have Bridges paralyze their economies, battened down for another long storm. Bridges made no provision for loading cargoes for the occupation forces of the Pacific. He made one concession: "Only the dead will be worked." This meant that the bodies of World War II dead arriving on Army transports would be unloaded...
...seems not quite in character, her dealers sadly send it back. One such reject hanging over her mantel shows a sunset above a Western canyon, with a log cabin in the foreground. "What one likes," says Grandma philosophically, "another don't." Another of her favorite rejects is a storm scene, with black clouds lowering in a pink sky. "Dr. Kallir [one of her dealers] wants me to change it. He don't like pink. He just hasn't seen the sky like that, but up here we see it pink...
...made her way alone along the dusty grey road from her family's farmhouse to the parish church. She ministered gently to ailing peasants who came to her for cures. Though she performed no miracles, it was said that once, when she was caught in a drenching storm in the open country, her garments remained miraculously...