Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though most of Harry Truman's attention was centered on his message to Congress, he could no longer ignore the threatening storm clouds piling up over Europe. Early last week he called General Lucius Clay and his political adviser Robert Murphy home from Berlin for consultations on the Russian blockade (see INTERNATIONAL). Then tension in official Washington mounted almost hourly...
Wings of the Storm. Tomorrow was bound to be stormier. The platform still had to be voted on. The party's worried leaders had done their best to produce something which, if it failed to please everyone, at least would not rile anyone very much. They had kept in touch with Harry Truman, whose cautious advice had been to keep the specific points of his so-called "civil rights" program out of the platform...
...Considerable & Crushing." De Gasperi sensed the gathering storm. Since the crushing defeat in the April 18 elections. Italy's Communists had been restively quiet. The row between Yugoslavia's Tito and the Cominform had shaken the Italian Communist Party to the roots...
Hatter's Castle (Paramount) is the beetle-browed mansion of a brutal hat-shop owner (Robert Newton) whose arrogant ambition to rise above his station kills his wife, drives his son to suicide, and sends his unmarried pregnant daughter (Deborah Kerr) out into a raging storm with fine Victorian flourish. Then, completely batty, father pulls the burning castle down over his ears in a huff, and leaves a mild young doctor (James Mason) to make an honest woman of Miss Kerr. The only possible excuse for bringing this seven-year-old film to the U.S. is mercenary...
Fallwell's classified "classic" stretched from Texas to Oregon, with bullfights, treacherous river-fordings, antelope hunts and climatic disturbances at every turn in the road-and the grammar was sometimes tired after the strenuous trip. Last week's installment ("The Terrible Rain Storm with Thunder & Lightning") had carried the author only up to the age of eleven. But Publisher Frank Schiro would have no objections if Autobiographer Fallwell outrecalled Thomas Wolfe...