Word: tempest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mercurial tempest continued during the fourth day, and the pair of solitary figures on the tundra landscape struggled forward, knees buckling with every step...
...days later, as the tempest grew, Jimmy Carter took to television, both to endorse the Vance warning and to call for "calm and a sense of proportion." Said the President: "We consider the presence of a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba to be a very serious matter and that this status quo is not acceptable." In the terse five-minute statement, Carter confirmed that "we are seriously pursuing this issue with the Soviet Union." But the Soviet force, he stressed, is not an assault force and does not have the capability to attack the U.S. Concluded the President: "This...
From every bully pulpit, he preaches that the world is using, wasting and polluting so much of its most necessary resource that a crisis is building, one that could make the energy crunch seem like a tempest in a gas tank. The world has not a drop more water than on the first day of Creation, he observes, but the thirsty family of man is expanding every moment. People are digging deeper for water, depleting underground sources faster than they are being replenished - so fast, in fact, that land is sinking...
...soon as Vance heard the news, he rebelled and threatened to resign. That set off a back-room tempest in the Administration. The principals, Vance, Strauss, Jordan and Vice President Walter Mondale gathered that night, at the end of March, in Mondale's living room. Vance insisted that he had already yielded too much to Brzezinski in the past couple of years, as Vance put it, to protect Brzezinski against his own large insecurities. "It's not personal, it's institutional," maintained the Secretary. "It will be a terrible blow for the State Department." Mondale tried...
...tempest caused yacht racing's worst catastrophe. Eighteen people, including three sailors not officially entered in the race, were killed and scores injured. Among the dead were three Americans who had been living in Britain: Frank H. Ferris, 61, Robert H. Robie, 63, and David Dicks, 31. Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath managed to sail into Plymouth unaided, although bruised and exhausted. Said he: "It was the worst experience I have ever had." Twenty-three yachts were sunk or abandoned and uncounted others crippled; preliminary estimates put the damage at $4.5 million or more...