Word: storming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crucial pivot that keeps him in or out of power will be the Bolivian army and his own armed followers. So long as they remain loyal, Paz will probably weather the storm. It is in the best interest of the hemisphere that he do so. He is an able economist of considerable vision; he has a deep appreciation of inter-American relations and the U.S. role in Latin American development. And he is probably the only man strong enough to hold together his seething land...
...them out and leafed through them at the slightest provocation. His walks on the White House grounds, with reporters chasing in full tilt, took on the aspect of a circus performance. His wife scoured the countryside for votes, while Luci Baines did her part by frug-dancing up a storm wherever she went. More and more, Johnson journeyed back and forth across the U.S., drinking in huge draughts of adoration from the crowds, shaking thou- sands of proffered hands until his fingers bled. Each foray into the crowds satiated him only for the moment, as if such experience...
...pressing through the storm...
Into the Limelight. Sordid in its details, tragic in its personal consequences, and of unmeasured significance in its political effects, the story was splashed atop front pages all over the country. Ironically, the man around whom the storm swirled had been the most self-effacing, quiet and publicity-shy member of Johnson's White House team. Quartered in Sherman Adams' old office in the southwest wing of the White House, he was the mysterious, slightly-out-of-focus fellow who seldom had his picture taken or got in the papers but who knew everything that was going...
Eventually the seas subsided, the storm abated, and the majestic, tormented whale dropped out of Lowell's poetry. In Life Studies, in fact, Lowell discarded the whole allegorical-religious baggage and became directly, fiercely, even embarrassingly, personal. The poems dealt with his immediate family: his father, whom he despised; his mother, whom he tolerated; his grandfather, whom he loved. His verse was often unfashionably raw and impassioned...