Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black-striper, was landed by New York Salesman Gordon Pittman in a Cuttyhunk boat, at 9:30 one night with the moon shining on the Vineyard's clay cliffs 200 yards away. It gave Cuttyhunkers, who claim that their 636-acre isle is the scene of The Tempest,* another honor to talk about...
...certainly to be regretted, but it is nevertheless a fact. Our committees, which are so democratic that they are open to any and all who care to join, were formed for the purpose of giving voice to the opinion that the whole matter of Student Council reform is a tempest in a teapot, and to express the hope that the business be dropped as soon as possible. There must be more important news for the Crimson to report. Ormonde de Kay, Jr. '45, Committee to Investigate the Committee to Investigate the Student Council. John A. Shepardson '46. Committee to Exterminate...
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...appalling scene sent newsmen scurrying from the wharf to fill luridly indignant columns. For four days the story raged. High Army brass seemed to think it was all a teapot-tempest. "Conditions," they said, "are no worse than the Japs accustomed others to." At Canberra the Government seemed to share this eye-for-an-eye philosophy. Officials turned their faces resolutely away from a blizzard of protesting telegrams, tried vainly to shift the blame to the Jap authorities, MacArthur, the Chinese or anyone else handy. Complained one M.P.: "The Government should have forbidden the press to cover the story...
...loving-cup tempest over the world capital seethed and bubbled. One group of irate citizens banded together into a Committee for the Preservation of Greenwich-keep UNO out. Other citizens formed a smaller Greenwich Citizens Committee-bring UNO in. The Stamford Hills Association screamed like a porker that sees the knife. Some 10,000 other Stamford citizens signed petitions of delight...