Word: storming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PIGS. This fiasco of the new Kennedy Administration in April 1961 is blamed in retrospect by State Department officials on a storm of "angry world opinion" that scared off the U.S. Government from carrying through the overthrow of Castro it had secretly planned. Yet some of the U.S.'s staunchest allies were (unofficially) more appalled by the U.S.'s display of faint heart...
...Gladstone to Harold Macmillan have honed their skills by debating everything from socialism to "Resolved: That in the opinion of this House, Columbus went too far." So respected is the Oxford Union that when in 1933 it resolved "That this House would not fight for King and Country," a storm of controversy swept Britain, and historians as authoritative as Winston Churchill have said that Hitler and Mussolini pursued their plans on the theory that all Britain was going pacifist...
Blimpish Bark. Last week the Union debated the same resolution (now, of course, "for Queen and Country"), and the storm was almost as violent. The man responsible was Tariq Ali, 21, a publicity-happy Pakistani studying at Oxford's Exeter College, who as president of the Union selects the topic of its weekly debates. His choice won him threats from Britain's fledgling Ku Klux Klan ("Watch out, you dirty wog"), four television appearances (worth $56), and 18 newspaper interviews. Letters poured in to editors, who responded with crisp editorials, and the BBC said it would televise...
...company in 1963, cut losses from $21 million to $4,000,000 last year by pruning away 4,000 excess employees, restoring Far East service, eliminating old pistons and going for jets; of injuries sustained when the twin-engine Beechcraft in which he was a passenger crashed during a storm near St. Moritz, Switzerland, also killing his wife and the two pilots...
Many teen-agers consider all the orgiastic screaming as "uncool." The idols themselves have noted that the frantic fans who storm the stages are predominantly homely girls. Says Jeanne Katzenberg, a pretty 16-year-old: "Nobody in my group has crushes on the singers or anything. We all have real boy friends...