Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...storm howled along the Portuguese coast. But that night, as usual, the 20-ship fishing fleet put out from the villages of Leixões, Matosinhos, Francelos, and the others. Fishing was good, but as the wind steadily increased, ship after ship put back to port. Only four remained at sea. The storm became a hurricane...
Next day the storm still raged, but the fishing fleet wanted to put to sea again; the authorities forbade it. One boy, orphaned with five sisters and brothers, was asked by a social worker what he wanted to be when he grew up. He said: "A fisherman, like father, of course...
Vice-President Reynolds is criticized heavily in the Committee report. In connection with the Class Album, termed "one of the cornerstones of class unity," the withholding of the purveyor list, cause of a mid-summer storm, is condemned as inconsistent with "ethics." Reynolds refused to give Album advertising men a list of purveyors to the University, but "stated that he thought other sources of finding out University purveyors could be tapped...
...Flagship Ethiopia, a Swedish-owned Bristol freight plane, refueled at Catania, in Sicily, and took off for Rome in a sirocco storm. Aboard were a crew of four and 21 passengers, all Swedish pilots and mechanics homebound after delivering in Addis Ababa 16 surplus Swedish light bombers for Emperor Haile Selassie's tiny but growing air force...
Missing Territory. As winter set in, China's northeast (Manchuria) was more than nine-tenths gone already. The columns of Communist General Lin Piao were pulling back a few dozen li after a punishing six-week offensive there. The Communists had not attempted to storm cities like Mukden and Changchun. They had been satisfied with attrition and wreckage. Along 150 miles of Manchuria rail lines they had warped rails to uselessness over bonfires of railroad ties. They had carted away the Manchuria harvest, disrupted coal and electricity supplies. The winter of 1947-48 would be bitter in Mukden...