Word: tempest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winston Churchill, the Briton most admired by Americans, who brewed the Great Tempest. His demand for a sovereign conference of the world's leading powers (TIME, May 18) had fired his countrymen's imaginations, and in domestic terms at least, it was well timed to appeal to coronation-time sentiments about a second Elizabethan Age. Behind well-phrased compliments, Churchill had adroitly sniped at the U.S., berated the truce negotiators for dillydallying, taunted Washington for its unwillingness to meet the Russians face to face. He was on popular ground and he knew it, for Britons...
...Importance of Being Texan Sir: Congratulations on your March 16 article "Texan Tempest," and for calling Mr. Dorrity's Esquire slam a piece of low humor...
...Kansas last week, farmers from Abilene to Topeka watched and worried as dust storms swirled across the state, silting down the new grass and dimming the sun. Across the U.S., politicians' eyes were watching an entirely different kind of Kansas storm, a political tempest, its gusts reaching all the way to Washington. In its center was Charles Wesley (Wes) Roberts, 49, chairman of the Republican National Committee...
Your article stirred up quite a tempest in our city . . . The whole town was seething with glee ! The local radio stations announced from time to time where copies of TIME could be obtained. On a radio program for the March of Dimes, 1,000 copies were offered to people who contributed to the charity and claimed their copy. In short, your magazine turned the town upside down ! ... It will be almost impossible for you to realize the caliber of this service to the populace here, or the magnitude of the words "thank you'' which have echoed through...
...Wednesday Pilot article, speaking of Rome's original rejection of Feeney's views, explained, "The highest authority in the Church had spoken and it confidently hoped that its word would be heeded. It patiently waited that the tempest and strife and vilification would gradually subside, scandal be removed and peace and harmony return to the harrassed members within the fold of Christ." Feeney's persistence in his heretical belief led to a call to Rome, and, following his refusal, excommunication...