Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their intention was not to prevent a vote; it was just to postpone it. They were out to wage a delaying action in the hope that President Truman's radio appeal to the U.S. public (see above) would stir up another torrent of telegrams to the Senate and possibly win a few uncertain members to their side. Alben Barkley, Democratic leader, tried to dissuade them. "Sometimes pressures do more harm than good," he said. But the little band of desperate men would not listen...
After V-J day, Yamazaki was released. Promptly, he loosed a torrent of postcards, letters, and speeches. The Japanese had won the war, he claimed. He hoped to guide the Japanese in Hawaii, which, he said, the Jap fleet was "watching," back into the path of Soto righteousness. He exhorted: "You should be, like Lord Buddha, strong and ruling the universe as the most superior ones...
...last visit to the Soviet Union, the ex-official of the War Production Board Recalled sounding everybody as best he could from Number One Down to discredited ex-czarist ballerinas. He found the citizens of the U.S.S.R. convinced that they are moving alone the torrent of an historically determined mission, with force as the logical last appeal...
...animals (including a high percentage of culls and inferior grades), but they got record prices for them as slaughterers, too, fought for quick predeadline profits. The Chicago price for full-fed steers hit an alltime high of $28.40 a hundredweight, then rose another $1.60. First day this week, the torrent turned into a deluge. Trucks loaded with hogs and steers were lined up 30 blocks waiting for the yards to open. By sundown the number of steers received was approximately 40,000, just a cut or two under the famous Dust Bowl liquidations...
...constitutes a tacit admission on the part of the University that it is no longer capable of providing quarters for all of its students. Every trick in the bag, including the re-classification of every room in the Houses, has been used in an effort to house the human torrent that will flood over Harvard next month...