Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caught in the Torrent. The crippled deputy was all but unknown in the National Assembly; his party was one of the motley collection of center groups which produce the passing parade of French postwar governments. But his choked, emotional voice was, that day last week, the authentic voice of France. Divided on almost everything else, Frenchmen united in fear and hatred of Germany...
...morning last week, Hibok-Hibok got angry again. This time it gave no warning. With a quaking blast it heaved its sulphurous stomach, tossed red-hot boulders bigger than a man across the northeastern portion of Camiguin, sent up clouds of red-hot ash and deadly chlorine. A torrent of glowing molten lava rolled in all directions. Three and a half miles away in Mambajao (pop. 21,000), the island's capital and largest village, children on the way to school, women washing clothes, men on the way to their fields were buried in the rush of lava, burned...
Henry Gauthier-Villars, known to all France at the turn of the century by his simple pseudonym, "Willy," was regarded as the most prolific hack-writer of his day. His admirers marveled that one man could produce such a torrent of puff-pastry fiction, dramatizations, music and theater criticism, and racy personal history. Actually, Willy did nothing of the sort. He employed hacks to do his hacking; he was squire of an estate of sharecropping "ghosts...
Last fortnight Van Fleet aimed three U.N. divisions-the U.S. 24th with Colombians attached, the South Korean 2nd and-6th-in an all-out attack on Kumsong. By last week the three converging divisions had narrowed the 22-mile jump-off front to less than eight miles, and a torrent of artillery fire had turned most of Kumsong into burning and smoking rubble. The infantrymen were so close that they could have looked down into the town, if the weather had been clear instead of thick. The Chinese had pulled out most of their men and guns. Some 800, left...
Bloody Ridge. The 2nd Infantry had a hard fight for "Bloody Ridge," a triple-peaked 3,000-ft. hogback north of Yanggu. By last week the Red positions had been shattered by a tremendous torrent of artillery-390,000 rounds. When the doughfeet got on top, they found nothing alive but a few wounded and half-starved North Koreans, abandoned by their comrades. By U.N. count, the Reds had lost 10,500 men, including 930 prisoners...