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Word: storming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was one lull before the big political storm. The major candidates went to suburban Rosemont for a "purely social meeting" at the home of Martin W. Clement, bony, white-haired president of the Pennsylvania Railroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Big Show | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...accompanied by the snarling archaic charm of the music William Walton composed for the occasion. The camera, always holding the mimes at distant center, steals in a lordly semicircle past the enormous heads of the guilty, the guileless, and the pitilessly watchful; and rising whispers, like leaves in a storm-foreboding wind, underline the shock and horror of this deadly piece of court satire. From there on, the film arches in unbroken grandeur and intensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Olivier's Hamlet | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...GATHERING STORM (784 pp.)-Winston Churchill-Houghton Mifflin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Warrior Historian | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...Storm of the Bastille . .." Next day, Palmiro Togliatti had the last word. It was a menacing word, one that indicated that the Reds might not be content to stop at parliamentary fisticuffs. Said he: "The aim of the new constitution was and is creation of a new order in the Italian state ... It is a problem which must inevitably be solved on the basis of force, of relation of material force . . . It is impossible to disarm an insurrection when it springs from political or class necessity. Sans-culottes* found arms to storm the Bastille and conquer proud Versailles . . . They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Yes, Petkoff | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

High Winds. A toy storm was pleasant, for a change. All week Robert Schuman had been grappling with man-sized tempests. He badly needed a magic button to press-but nowhere in the jittery, confused National Assembly was there the solid majority which could provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Time Presses | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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