Word: thunderstormed
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Like hens in a gathering thunderstorm, the men of good will hoped that somehow a miracle would avert a deluge of chaos, anarchy and civil war. Only the little man remained calm. U.S. Correspondent A. T. Steele, visiting his retreat at Sevagram last week, described it as "a dude ranch, a Father Divine 'heaven,' a Mennonite colony, a collective farm and an agricultural station, with everybody a vegetarian." There Mohandas K. Gandhi relaxed, listened to his inner voice, took abdominal mudbaths to husband his waning strength...
...first, played in Manhattan's Polo Grounds between a thunderstorm and a blackout, was all-civilian: between picked teams of American and National Leaguers. The Americans, hopping on the National's super-duper Pitcher Morton Cooper before he had worked the dampness out of his mighty right arm, scored three runs in the first inning, starting with a homer by Cleveland's Lou Boudreau on the second pitch. That was enough to win the game (3-to-1) and the chance to represent the big leagues in the skirmish with Uncle Sam's club in Cleveland...
Oxonian Herbert's words touched off a row like a summer thunderstorm. One hundred seventy-four Members of Parliament signed a petition supporting the Group. Evangelist Buchman himself was not available for comment (he was last seen in Bath, Me. attending a Group musical show called You Can Defend America), but from his press-relations department came a stream of releases giving testimonials from everyone from Franklin Roosevelt to "the Lord Mayor of Bristol and 52 aldermen and councilors...
...Like a thunderstorm, the row did not last. Last week Ernest Bevin stood before the House, told it that the Group was the only religious organization that had tried to claim an exemption. When he sat down, not a voice was raised. The Government's position was accepted without a vote...
...Nazis put on the show for excitable, visiting Columnist Dorothy Thompson, who attended it from her fifth-floor windows in the Savoy Hotel (see p. 21). But it was a poor show and after it Columnist Thompson snorted: "It was . . . not nearly so noisy as a New York thunderstorm...