Word: storming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Camels to Ju-Ju. Architecture for emerging nations has its own set of special problems. In designing houses architects must often plan not only enough bedrooms for parents and children but also space for the family's camel and goats. Buildings in Libya require weather stripping and storm windows to keep sand from blowing in African buildings must be equipped with insect shields, and bird and snake screens. Excavation sites are usually sterilized to kill voracious African bugs that can even bore through concrete
...Storm Breaks...
...storm and thunder...
...Racketeer? The first scandal broke about a year ago when Postmaster General Azellus Denis resigned from the Cabinet after a storm in Parliament over his hiring a slew of defeated Liberal candidates as post office "consultants." That was tame com0pared with what followed. Five months ago, a young Montreal lawyer went to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with a story that the executive assistant to the Minister of Immigration, two aides to Justice Minister Guy Favreau, and Pearson's own parliamentary secretary had approached him in an extradition case. The man under extradition proceedings was a Montreal racketeer wanted...
...Mounties, of course, notified Justice Minister Favreau, and Favreau told Pearson, but as Pearson later admitted, he had "completely forgotten" about the warnings of trouble in his official family until two days before the Opposition Conservatives broke the story last November. When the storm hit Parliament, Pearson had no choice but to collect resignations and to appoint a commission of public inquiry. For the past six weeks, Canadians have been treated to the spectacle of the accused aides protesting their innocence and minor-league hoodlum types testifying about their "connections" in the Liberal government...