Word: swirles
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...hurrying into black tie as night falls, dressing in their private office bathrooms because there isn't enough time to go home (one presidential aide regularly changes in the car while his wife drives), are likely to be yearning for surcease from the evening's pleasures, the social swirl that is really an extension of the day's business. But not a chance when beside him in limousine or taxi sits his wife?freshly coiffed at Jean-Paul's, swathed in a high style that she never wore in Pascatoola, and dropping names that sound like newspaper headlines. She knows...
...From the swirl of contrary trends, ticket-splitting, upsets and dissimilar contests, one result seemed certain: most voters in most places opted for calm, for reasonableness, for a cessation of domestic hostilities. Spiro Agnew, and Nixon in the final days, dispensed bitterness. The current tenor of conservatism was surely there to be exploited, but not by a narrow, harsh approach reminiscent of Nixon in the 1950s...
...guest teacher and artist Jose Limon, the troupe interprets the Concerto Grosso in D Minor with the classic curves dictated by his style. Like Limon's dance of Otherllo- the Moor's Pavane -the Concerto creates and expands circular space. Vivaldi's fast paced score supports the swirl of emotions performed by the group...
...Mongol Reds crossed the Atlantic in their great dirigibles. The Navy, America's first line of defense, was annihilated. The disintegrator beams bit deeply into the ocean, causing it to swirl and boil. Both ships and aerplanes were completely destroyed as the ray touched them. The Army made brave but futile resistance as the Mongolian aircraft swept across the country. Washington, D. C. was wiped out of existence in 3 hours by the terrible rays which cut the very foundations from under its magnificent buildings, . . . It was the death of a nation...
...letting white America know that it can no longer wantonly murder blacks without retribution. He hopes that it will also head off massive unorganized ghetto revolts in which only blacks suffer. But Browning's hopes crumple like a dynamited bridge, as the policeman's death touches off an uncontrollable swirl of events...