Word: storming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prince's efforts to come to know Wales, there are many who resent his presence. Perhaps the most radical dissenters are the members of the Free Wales Army: eight young members are now on trial in Swansea, and some evidence produced during the trial hints that they planned to storm Caernarvon Castle during the investiture. Some call the army "a standing joke . . . they couldn't blow the skin off a rice pudding." But the organization has managed to commit eleven acts of sabotage against public facilities since March...
...clever fellows across the Irish Sea. Yet their dandyish wit lingers in the air, and when it flicks against the grotesque imagery of the Gaels, it sets off one of those wild word-fires, fastidiously phrased, that can sometimes blaze up in pubs and books alike, becoming a fire-storm in the works of Joyce. God knows the Irish will even deny that they're witty, to make a point, and declare that English influence was the ruination of them. But the mixture of humors has given them a literature which-if you phrase the question right-they will...
Last week, giving in to the storm of clemency petitions, Ojukwu announced that the sentences of the 18 "nonindigenous collaborators" were being commuted and they were allowed to leave the country. Ojukwu, a Catholic himself, had been moved by Pope Paul's pleas for mercy, according to the Biafran government. But what obviously moved Biafra's leader most of all was the fact that three of the most earnest pleaders-Gabon, the Ivory Coast and Portugal-provide the staging areas from which arms or food supplies reach Biafra...
Bless Jane Jacobs. Lively, lucid, blunt, original, she triumphs by being mostly wrong. Her first book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), took thousands of great-American-city dwellers by storm. Written in the heyday of urban renewal, it briskly pointed out that most big, supposedly progressive rebuilding projects were casting a "great blight of dullness" on the already tormented city dweller. In her ten years as an editor of Architectural Forum, she had seen plenty of such projects. The zesty future, she argued, could be found instead by returning to the diversity of the past...
...came to Harvard, the closest thing with tenure to an active radical. But Professor Hughes and, for that matter, Betsy were only backwaters in the great stream of people supposedly politicized or radicalized by about five minutes of not unusually brutal police action in Harvard Yard. In both directions storm-troopers had worked the trick, the difference of opinion being as to who they were, students or police...