Word: tempest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Office declared to be "previously unclaimed by any nation." A few placid Chinese, fishing from the islands for turtles, did not dispute the French seizure. Three years ago France acquired by similar means and has since held Tempest Island, also in the China...
While reading your June 12 issue of the TIME I was amazed to find, under your "Toilet Kit Tempest" article, a reference to the Civilian Conservation Corps members as "forestry workers on the dole...
Looked at disinterestedly the tempest is amusing. Of course these subscribers do not mean all they say and must realize it after they have expressed themselves. Neither sex has a corner on good or evil or ignorance or knowledge...
...eyed face of a bespectacled lemur: the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. For four months he had been out of the news, drinking goat's milk, spinning cotton on his charkha, brooding as ever on the woes of India's Pariah Untouchables. Inside the bare parched skull "a tempest was raging." Finally, "the voice became insistent and said, 'Why don't you do it?' I resisted but in vain.'' Last week on Harijan (Untouchables' Day) Gandhi announced what "it" was: a three-week fast to force all India's temples to admit...
...White House a swarm of bankers, financiers, businessmen, industrialists, railroaders, labor leaders, farm spokesmen. In the privacy of his study, one by one, he asked them what he should do in the economic emergency. Almost to a man his visitors told him to sit tight, keep smiling, let the tempest blow itself out. For nearly two years he followed their advice...