Word: tempest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some with Capstan barres, some fending off with oares, some with plancks of two ynches thicke, which were broken immediatly with the force of the yce, some going out upon the yce to beare it off with their shoulders from the ships. But the rigorousness of the tempest and the force of the yce so rased the sides of the ships that it was pitifull to behold, and caused the hearts of many to faint. Thus we continued all that dismall night...
...Britain's chief economic representative to the U.S., Lord Cromer won a reputation for entertaining well and reporting incisively. In 1960 Harold Macmillan appointed him as the youngest governor of the Bank of England in two centuries. Soon after he took office, he stirred a tempest by publicly criticizing the Tory government for spending too heavily...
...door Falcon is ideal; a dark green Chevy II with automatic transmission is "safe" for the pastor of a small congregation. But a substantial urban congregation may expect its minister to drive something a bit larger and less austere, such as a blue Mercury Comet or a Pontiac Tempest...
...sporty Mustang, which carved out 5.1% of the market although it was introduced only last April. Another newcomer, Chrysler's fastback Barracuda, established a 0.6% niche for itself. Plymouth made an impressive improvement over its January 1964 market share, adding; 1.5%. Buick won an additional 0.8%, Tempest and Chrysler 0.6% each, standard Ford 0.5% and Mercury 0.4% -all at the expense of the compacts and the cars with only modest styling changes, which continued to be the biggest losers. Because the auto sales total is so great, the percentage shifts only appear to be small: actually, every extra percentage...
...felt was "making an elephant out of a mosquito." At week's end the Cologne prosecutor had still not filed an indictment, and everyone was hoping that the Shah would decide to settle for Neven Dumont's personal apology and thus bring a quiet end to the tempest in an inkpot...