Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place on fire." Many a poison-pen victim, who had suffered in silence, thinking that he or she alone had been singled out for attack, rushed to the vicar with his story. Within a fortnight he had several hundred letters to take to the police. Burly Storekeeper Richard Knightly Storm boasted of having got his first 15 years ago: "You felt out in the cold if you hadn't received one." Relieved villagers gave the anonymous writer a jeering name: "The Big Baby...
Russian Novelist llya Ehrenburg, who a few years ago won a Stalin Prize (currently worth $18,862), won it all over again with The Storm, a novel about Russia's wartime heroism and the Allies' rapaciousness. Dramatist Konstantin Simonov, whose The Russian Question (about corrupt U.S. journalism) won him a Stalin Prize last year, got none this time-but prizes went to the men who made a movie of his play...
...celebration of Army Day, field artillery and Signal Corps equipment will storm the Eliot-Kirkland triangle this afternoon between 2 and 4 o'clock in an exhibit arranged by the University ROTC unit...
When he catches a train of such waves, Dr. Deacon looks on the weather map to check on where they are coming from. Usually their origin is a storm far out toward North America. The wind may never reach England, but the long, low swells, sweeping along at 70 miles an hour, much faster than ordinary ocean waves, do not stop until they hit a shoreline. Dr. Deacon has measured waves at Pendeen which came all the way from a storm off Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America...
Since the waves outrun the wind, they provide a handy method of spotting storms that are still far out at sea. This is not important in the North Atlantic, whose weather is reported by ships and airplanes almost from minute to minute. But between South Africa and South America, there are few ships, and only one small weather station, on the island of Tristan da Cunha. Since most storms in the area strike from the west, a wave recorder on the African coast might give a day or two of warning before a storm arrives. Dr. Deacon also believes that...