Word: tornados
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Maury Maverick, the Texas tornado, further denounced and denned Washington's "gobbledygook" language (TIME. April 10). Said "blah"-maddened Maverick in the New York Times Magazine: "First, the word: it is long, sounds foreign, has four stories. You walk up without benefit of elevator. Second, its definition: talk or writing which is long, pompous, vague, involved. ... It is also talk or writing . . . with repetition over & over again, all of which could have been said in a few words...
...down the Black and Waccamaw Rivers on a 54-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat. Under a canopy of blimps and patrol planes, he had trolled for bluefish and bonito 15 miles out in the Atlantic. (He was almost caught at sea in a thunderstorm kicked up by a tornado that killed 38 people farther west...
Even the bombing of Manila did not upset residents unduly. They were still unable to believe that they were standing in a tornado's path...
...Dear Mr. Roosevelt!" He may or may not have realized how soon the cork was going to blow out. Far to the south the Jap tornado was engulfing Borneo and rolling into the Solomon Islands. In the middle of February Singapore fell as casually as a shrug. Then the Japs turned their fury back on the Philippines...
...fear that the next big Republican wind might be a tornado has long disturbed Democratic officeholders in Oklahoma. Since 1928 they have been busily digging a storm cellar...