Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fast carrier task force of Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet had retired to refuel. There had been reports of an approaching typhoon; however, most of the Fleet's aerologists had charted it considerably farther east. Then the storm began to veer erratically toward the task force. We could see that we were in for a typhoon of savage ferocity...
...ships were already catching hell-how much hell we could not tell, for sheets of spray often cut visibility to ten yards, and we could get only an occasional peek at the smaller ships across a dip in the mountainous waves. It was in the first climax of the storm just before noon, that three brave ships capsized and died...
Dusk came early. When the grey day darkened, the infantrymen and tanks had crunched over the first two lines of deep German defenses. Parts of these lines had melted away in the storm of fire. The Russians told of trenches "piled high" with German dead. Where Germans had lived through the storm the Russians found them stunned...
...daybreak. In one of the best shots of all, sand and sea and sky combine colors so tender, in so untender a context, that for a moment all color and action seem annulled, as if this prenatal-like stillness were the dead center of history's uncontrollable storm...
...breakfast-table brawl between the Sun and the Tribune. The Windy City's evening papers, freshly filled with new and noisy talent, were also blowing fit to crack their cheeks. A cyclonic Marine captain named Lou Ruppel had taken over Hearst's rowdy Herald-American, and storm signals were out all over town...