Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like chicks flocking to the mother hen when the storm clouds gather, Russia's satellite leaders were coming to Moscow for encouragement-and for gold, food, arms, war matériel-as the two worlds on either side of the Stettin-Trieste line braced themselves...
Canadian cattlemen wanted a new breed of cattle. They wanted a breed that could withstand the sub-zero winters and swirling blizzards of the western provinces. In a storm, cattle huddled with their hindquarters facing the wind, and often smothered in the thick snow. When recumbent cows and steers tried to get up, they instinctively tried to raise their hindquarters first. Often they fell on their faces, starved to death...
Cattlemen observed the habits of the buffalo. It faced the storm; it got up head first. Why not crossbreed buffalo and domestic cattle? The Dominion Experimental Farm at Wainwright, Alta. tried...
...devil abroad in his 20th Century world is the ultra-rational scientist-technocrat, for whom man is the measure of all things; who would storm heaven with test tubes, nuclear fission and pure reason. Of one of his satanic prototypes Lewis says: "He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through Logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete void...
Last week he met defeat. Louisiana's Legislature promptly turned thumbs down on "Chet" Morrison's slot-machines measures, tabled them indefinitely by an overwhelming vote. His legalized-bookmaking measure also faced certain death. Most legislators were less concerned with the dust storm of protest raised by the women's groups and churchmen than with kicking the goose that laid golden eggs for sheriffs and machine politicians...