Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the lights doused by a storm and his wife about to give birth, Notre Dame Football Coach Frank Leahy, 41, urgently called two doctors to his Indiana home. They arrived to find that Leahy, working by candlelight, had already safely delivered the Leahy's sixth child, fourth boy ("a fullback, I think"). The coach's critique: "If you think a football game is exciting, you should have been at our house last night...
...Rose Horse. But moderns were more interested in what Delacroix had thought about color, for his free & easy use of it sometimes foreshadowed the Fauves ("Wild Beasts") and modern art. In last week's Saturday Review of Literature, Critic James Thrall Soby described the storm that one of his canvases, La Justice de Trajan, raised in the Salon of 1840: "The picture barely survived the Salon's jury, an astonishing fact when we consider that Delacroix had been painting professionally for more than 20 years and was famous throughout Europe . . . Once accepted and hung, the picture created...
...Federal Reserve Board hauled down a storm signal last week. Ever since last November its production index, one of the barometers of U.S. business, had been skittering down. It had dropped 33 points to 162 in July, indicating a 17% fall in overall U.S. production. Last week FRB reckoned that production was bouncing up again and that the index for August had risen, probably back to the June level...
...time of more clouds than sunshine; Michigan was the storm center of labor's worst squalls. 'Auto workers, fighting for union recognition, staged the great sit-down strikes. For six weeks the gentle, violence-hating Murphy sat by and refused to throw them out by force, finally settled the dispute by mediation. Michigan declined to re-elect him. But Roosevelt appointed him U.S. Attorney General...
...Kaiser coveted them in 1915 as did Panzer-probing Rommel in 1942. Between times and since, there have been such threats to meet as the overthrow of the Ottoman Empire and tribal revolts provoked by Soviet Russia. Through all, Britain and Anglo-Iranian, bending but never breaking in the storm, have kept control. Now Anglo-Iranian has assets of ?76,753,472, is the third largest crude-oil producer in the world; only Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) and Royal Dutch-Shell are bigger...