Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flood crashed through the Mississippi levees in "a torrent ten feet deep the size of Rhode Island. . . . The south Delta became seventy-five hundred square miles of millrace in which one hundred and twenty thousand human beings and one hundred thousand animals squirmed and bobbed." In Greenville, the mayor appointed Percy chairman of the flood-relief committee and the local Red Cross. When the Negro Chicago Defender stirred up the Negroes against him, Percy went alone into their jampacked, sullen meeting, talked the mutineers back to their senses...
...Possible forerunners of a torrent of anti-Nazi films are three recent motion pictures: 1. The Mortal Storm; The Man I Married; Pastor Hall. 2. Waterloo Bridge; Fight for Life; Air Death. 3. Foreign Correspondent; To the Victor; Our Town. 4. Grey Legions ; Sky Hawks ; They Drive by Night. 5. After Bismarck; The Secret Weapon...
Neighbors. OF Man River flows south, but last week, both before & after this eloquent torrent, U. S. thoughts, good will and anxiety flowed north. For in the Dominion of Canada the future was stirring like an unborn baby. There were twinges in Canada last week of old confusions and new self-consciousness. The inescapable duality in Canada's international relationships-tied to the British Empire by heartstrings, to the U. S. by social propinquity and economics-was in the mind of every Canadian...
...southwest and Amsterdam to the north, a French mechanized force which had reached Breda to the southeast, were all too slow, powerless or witless to intervene. Dutch Foreign Minister Elco van Kleffens said German parachutists disguised as Dutch police prevented it. In any case, preceded by one last torrent of air bombs upon Rotterdam, which stubborn Dutch fighters had twice cleared of Nazis, the invaders rolled over the bridge and into the city...
...dive-bombers, after separating so that they could descend from different angles, gunned their motors and, each in his turn, started down. From the ships below burst upwards an inverted torrent of anti-aircraft projectiles. . . . Within a few minutes, in Berlin, Hermann Göring was hurrying to tell Adolf Hitler about results which were later flashed to the world in these words...