Word: storming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank, a five-term southern Massachusetts representative, has faced a storm of criticism of his 18-month involvement with Stephen L. Gobie, a Washington prostitute. Gobie has said that he operated a prostitution ring out of Frank's Capitol Hill apartment...
Clancy's first two books, The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising, were both cold war thrillers that told grand stories (grand enough that they were both # 1 bestsellers for many months) but had little to offer in terms of theme or message. His two follow-ups, Patriot Games and Cardinal of the Kremlin, struggled to escape the cold war mentality and succeeded only thanks to Clancy's knack for describing gadgets...
Meanwhile, the storm advanced faster and with renewed fury yesterday on Georgia and South Carolina as a flood of coastal residents grabbed what they could carry and fled inland on jammed highways...
...late afternoon Hugo was upgraded to category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane strength, the second mightiest category. The storm's winds increased to 135 m.p.h., up from 105 the day before...
MIAMI--Hurricane Hugo quickened its pace toward the Eastern Seaboard yesterday as residents gathered supplies and made evacuation plans, while violence and looting broke out on the shattered islands in the storm's wake...