Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
This is the tempest long foretold...
Ready-Made Answer. Next he read from two New York Herald Tribune editorials. They discussed "the mixture of unauthenticated 'news,' rumor, guesswork and innuendo which has exploded a teapot tempest around . . . General Marshall." They labeled such speculative reporting obstructionism and "whispering gallery journalism...
Alaska's Governor Ernest H. Gruening started the tempest. Choking with indignation, he had appeared before the Committee to protest against a bill to authorize mail censorship between the U.S. and territories. For a year, he sputtered, censors' had been prying into mail to Alaska. Private letters were passed around for the censors' amusement. Personal items were scissored, put on mimeographed sheets, circulated to British and U.S. officials...