Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curtain fell, James entered the theater by the stage door. He was told that all had gone well. The star, "with incredible cruelty," led him to the middle of the stage. "For a moment or so James faced the storm, his round face white, his mouth opening and shutting." Then the star dragged him back into the wings. A contemporary account suggested that there had been a cabal against the play, and that the hissing began according to a prearranged signal. Says Author Nowell-Smith: "The problem is perhaps now insoluble...
...then "fed continuously to a projector and flashed to the screen. The whole converting operation (tube-to-film-to-screen) took only 66 seconds. Images were bright and well-defined, and the sneak preview was hailed by all who saw it. The mere mention of Brooklyn brought such a storm of cheers, however, that most of the audience missed the explanation and thought the telecast was a newsreel...
While Mendy Weisgal '45 2G was decrying United States policy in Palestine, a rubber-masked hockler tried unsuccessfully to storm the platform...
...Crimson tennis players took off at the crack of dawn today bound for Brunswick, Maine, and a match with Bowdoin. The team is hoping rainclouds will keep away and give them a chance to defeat the Bowdoin unit, which escaped last year when a storm halted played with Harvard ahead...
...human race is enjoying what zoologists sometimes call a "breeding storm." In 1630 there were about 400,000,000 people on earth. By 1830 the earth's population had doubled. By 1900 it had doubled again: to 1,600,000,000. Now the total is over two billion, and the increase is about 1% (20,000,000 people) a year...