Word: tempester
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From that moment the afternoon's quiet lay shattered. A teapot-tempest burbled through the House. All the country's discontent with Winston Churchill's management of home affairs whistled over...
...strange noise in the distance ... increased to a storm. An enormous mass of people ... a tempest of shouts and hoots ... an amazing column of cars in the avenue . . . thousands of people . . . shouting something about a 'swindler' who was caught trying to take off-in his plane. It must be the man he was looking for. It was. On a kind of tumbril ... sat President Roosevelt. A gigantic banner over his head read 'This man drove us to the shambles'. . . . Cameras whirred, the crowds pointed their fingers and sang derisory songs. Ash trays from the offices were...
...fashion jottings on the grey topper and bustle. Significant sports items such as the Sullivan v. Kilrain championship fight bob up. "Gracious Living Today" depicts authentic colonial home furnishings. The books and plays of the times are reviewed, including the London opening of William Shakespeare's The Tempest...
...wanted to meet the army's request to teach Russian subjects to uniformed students. And that was a tough problem. According to President Edmund Ezra Day, it could not find an informed lecturer who was neither rabidly pro-nor anti-Soviet. The university is bewildered by the samovar tempest its choices created...
...Teapot Tempest. The immediate sector was the renewed fight over subsidies-an issue more boring to the average citizen than the oldtime tariff, and much less understandable...