Word: tempest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show is a gentlemanly one, it will probably be a strongly Republican one as well. Saltonstall slaughtered Corcoran in 1944, and apparently neither the miraculous vote-pulling ability of the Senator nor the national Republican tempest have abated...
Temper & Trash. The man who wrote the copy and stirred up the teapot tempest is smart, free-speaking Elliott White Springs, 51, president of South Carolina's Springs Mills (and of seven other textile companies, three banks and a railroad), and an old hand at stirring up excitement...
...SUBSCRIBER REGRETS THAT YOUR USUALLY WELL-INFORMED MAGAZINE IS SO IGNORANT OF ENGLISH POLITICS AS TO PRINT SECOND AND LAST PARAGRAPHS OF "THE TEMPEST & THE TOSSED" IN JUNE 14 ISSUE [calling the House of Lords "little more than a debating society filled with crotchety, beef-pink, ultraconservative old men"]. YOUR LONDON EDITOR SHOULD ATTEND LORDS DEBATE AND MODERNIZE HIS FACTS...
Diego Rivera's new mural in a Mexico City hotel had stirred up a tequila tempest: the Archbishop refused to bless the hotel because the mural in the dining room contained the words "God does not exist" (TIME, June 14). Last week the ideological brew boiled over, and some of it spilled on the painting...
Premier Robert Schuman, who had started and stopped the tempest in the model harbor at the French government's new hydraulic laboratory at Maisons-Alfort last week, was pleased. "What control! It's uncanny," he remarked...