Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington had known it was coming, just as surely as it had known the storm was coming. Nevertheless, the news hit the nation with the jarring impact of a fear suddenly become fact. The comfortable feeling of U.S. monopoly was gone forever. The fact was too big and too brutally simple for quick digestion. What had been a threat for some time in the future, hard to visualize, easy to forget, had become a threat for today, to be lived with...
...Veterans Administration's storm-tossed ruling that vets' benefits can be applied only to training "essential to employment" will be fought to the last out by the University chapter of the American Veterans Committee, chairman Roy F. Gootenberg '49 1GPA announced last night after the chapter's first executive board meeting of the year...
While the U.S. warily eyed the storm clouds over the steel industry last week, the storm hit from another direction. John L. Lewis gestured with majestic arrogance to his 480,000 United Mine Workers and they knew what to do. This week the nation's coal mines were shut down by strike...
...both sides of the street with stale fruit and water hoses. Freshmen survivors of this-proceed to the basketball court where they become the feature attraction of the rally. Then they march over to Roble Hall to serenade the freshmen women. This serenade usually turns into an attempt to storm the sacred Roble Halls. Up fire escapes and through windows stream the pajamaclads, running through the corridors and gathering souvenirs on their...
...talking about nuclear energy today? . . . What got the headlines? Tell me. Was it power? No. Bombs . . . And you [physicists] can storm and shout about atomic energy at the top of your voices - the world just won't hear...