Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese officials winced under the storm, complained that the Americans just did not understand China. Wrote Shih Shih Hsin Pao, former Finance Minister H. H. Kung's own paper, in a painful flash of introspection...
...passion for rediscovery remained] as keen in questions which he had discussed with six generations of students. . . 'I missed only one day last year,' he said . . . 'and then the young men sent a committee asking me not to venture out, since the great storm that was raging made the streets nearly impassable...
Norman Corwin, jack-of-all-radio, paused to set a few minds at ease as he flew off on a four-month round-the-world tour patterned on Wendell Willkie's 1942 flight. "Storm" indications between the U.S., Britain, and Russia, he announced, were "nothing serious." Armed with a recording device and set for interviews high & low, the winner of the "OneWorld" award (TIME, March 4) proposed to turn his trip to account by capturing "the ordinary qualities" of practically all kinds of people all over the world...
...Exeter's big game with Andover last week, the score was 2 to 2 in the ninth, when a storm broke. The last person to leave the Exeter stand, looking mightily disappointed at the tie score, was a man in a battered brown hat and a black Navy raincoat. He was Exeter's new principal, William Gurdon Saltonstall...
...adapted by Orson Welles from Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Mr. Welles) is Orson Welles with his foot on the loud pedal-which is roughly the equivalent of a lunatic asylum at the height of an electrical storm. Producer-Adapter-Actor-Magician Welles has blown up Jules Verne's famous yarn into a mammoth burlesque whose 34 scenes spill over the stage into the aisles and, when that won't do, resort to movie shots...