Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first mentions of Terms III and IV. But many other citizens got a little uneasy. Some remembered, even, that in 1940 any suggestion that a third term might lead to a fourth term was flatly and indignantly denied. Said Franklin Roosevelt, campaigning in Cleveland: "There is a great storm raging now. . . . And that storm ... is the true reason that I would like to stick by these people of ours until we reach the clear, sure footing ahead. We will make it-make it before the next term is over. . . . When that term is over, there will be another President...
...seemingly reconnaissance in force rather than wholehearted attack. Fifteen out of 100 Nazi raiders were shot down in the biggest of the operations. Whatever information these reconnaissance raids could bring in was gratefully received. The Nazis were up to their ears in guessing games about the gathering invasion storm. Their Paris radio said that the Allies were massing "50 divisions and 80,000 airborne troops" for the invasion. Neutral Swedish sources went into even greater detail, presumably on German information. They said that the Allies had piled up some 50 British and Empire divisions in the United Kingdom...
Interim War. If the great invasion storm was still a threat, however imminent, war in the west was real enough to the men already fighting...
...That is why, in the tragic hours when the storm sweeps away conventions and customs, they alone stand...
...Starting from scratch, he had gambled in oil leases and wells until he got together $100,000. In twelve years, he parlayed this into the $4,739,370 Sinclair Oil & Refining Co., was on his way to becoming one of the U.S.'s biggest oil tycoons when the storm broke. For five years, Sinco sweated through Senate hearings, investigations and trials. He was acquitted on the major charge: conspiracy to bribe the late Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall. But he went to jail for six months for contempt of the Senate...