Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout the week there were storm warnings. Army flyers had spotted a Caribbean hurricane veering toward Florida. For days, the nation had almost minute-by-minute reports on its progress. When it finally struck, along the Florida keys and the lush resort towns, it hit at 143 miles an hour. The toll in lives was low (three), in damage high ($50 millions). Then the hurricane veered out to sea again...
Across the land, there were other storm warnings and winds of another kind. As industrial strife in the automotive industry rose to gale force, it focused the nation's attention on Detroit...
They began to see more planes, which they identified in the distance as Japanese. Then one day a storm broke over them, flung them up on the crest of a wave and gave them a sudden, unbelievable view of a patch of green. By that time, incapable even of joy, Zamperini could only say flatly: "There's an island over there." They paddled weakly all that day and night, until a second storm swept them inside a coral-ringed lagoon in the Marshalls. It was the 47th day. Spotted by Japanese fishermen, Zamperini and Philips were lifted from...
Gerow was pinned because he confused rather than informed Short with his messages. And both Marshall and Gerow were criticized because they did not take steps in the last few days to inform Short that his anti-sabotage alert was inadequate to meet the storm that might break. (War Secretary Stimson characterized the criticism of Marshall as "entirely unjustified...
...this Cincinnatus, gesturing plough-ward, sent Mexican politics into a storm of conjecture. As long as Cárdenas stayed in the Cabinet of President Manuel Avila Camacho, he would be endorsing the Administration and its political machine. Outside, ploughing or not, he would be free to throw his weight around in next year's presidential election...