Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Property-owners manned shovels and wheelbarrows, held their noses and tried to bury the fish. Beaches were drenched with DDT. At week's end, the Red Tide still mottled the Gulf. The only hope for suffering Floridians was that a storm would break up the amber plague or carry it somewhere else...
...their discontent, Britons were escaping to the quiet glories of the English countryside. They rattled along in tinny Austins and on sputtering motorbikes, queued up for trains and buses in ideal summer weather. But toward this happily perspiring pastorale, occasioned by the traditional Bank Holiday weekend, swept an oppressive storm. Britain was again in crisis, the gravest in the series that began with peace...
Martha Ellen Young had seen the Federal "Redlegs" of the Civil War storm out of Kansas and slaughter her family's hogs. Her girlhood memories were of dances in the front parlor. "I was what you might call a light-foot Baptist...
...virtually every piece of major legislation had been given his boost or his boot. Frankly, loudly, obstinately and often, he had declared his stand. Some of his views (his opposition to David Lilienthal, to universal military training, to the State Department's Voice of America) had brought a storm of criticism. Other views (on the labor act, on tax-cutting) had won him both praise and condemnation. But nobody, friend or foe, could accuse him of not speaking his mind. He was wide open to rocks and cheers all along the right...
Aping the theorists' own gibble-gabble, Stabler said that the rise "disposed of surmises that [it] is merely a secondary move within a primary swing after testing double tops on a northeast course follow ing raising of a right shoulder in a southwest storm...