Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody's Happy. Most of Amerika's clear, simple stories are told in terms of "average Americans," avoid controversial personalities and political issues that might roil the Kremlin-or Congress. Not long after Amerika had stirred up such a storm on Capitol Hill by suggesting that the Midwest was poor and drought-stricken, slim, brunette Editor Marion Sanders, 43, took over. Since then, Amerika has provoked no senatorial tempers. Welles-ley-educated Mrs. Sanders is a doctor's wife and mother of two college-age youngsters. She knows no Russian and has never visited the U.S.S.R.; Moscow...
...which by then had run in hundreds of strikebreakers and guards, seemed in no mood to give in to their demands. Said Union Official Christian Hanebuth: "We cannot fight on physically against their guns." But next day, 3,000 strikers and their sympathizers went right on fighting, tried to storm the railway station at the Berlin Zoo. Communist police fired on them, killing a 16-year-old boy. British authorities sharply demanded the withdrawal of the Red railway police. Cried one strike leader: "Be patient, fellows . . . We are reaching our goal...
...storm blew over for the time being. In October, however, it sprang up again. Henry E. Schultz, a Queens member of the Board of Higher Education, proposed an amendment to the Board's by-laws that would bar "subversive" groups from all city college campuses...
...give the brain a better blood supply by dilating the blood vessels. Electric shock, they think, works by increasing the amount of histamine. One advantage of the new treatment: the patient need not go to a hospital. The novel histamine report, Dr. van Ophuijsen suspected, would raise a "healthy storm...
...suspenseful view of the port of Algiers, innocently sleeping in the light of early morning, before the Yanks storm ashore...