Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly the overcrowded boat sprang a hull leak, and a torrent of water gushed through. The Dandara came to a halt in midriver. Crewmen managed to transfer 50 passengers to a nearby barge, then desperately steered for shore. But near the bank, the panicking crowd rushed to the shoreside rails. Under the sudden weight, the Dandara slowly tipped onto its side...
...Torrent of Abuse. With such a lopsided committee endorsement. Senate confirmation seemed likely to be routine. Then, day before the confirmation vote, Wayne Morse took the Senate floor, orated for 32 hours-through some 20,000 words-against Clare Luce. Commented Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush when it was over: "I doubt there has ever been a more severe and bitter attack upon an individual who has been nominated by a President for a high post in the service of this Government." Samples of the Morse attack...
...most of Morse's torrent of abuse dealt with the same excerpts from Mrs. Luce's old political speeches (the latest from 1952) that he had attacked earlier at the committee hearing, especially her "lied us into war" remark about Franklin D. Roosevelt. Morse's case against that one sentence, spoken 15 years ago, sprawled over 17 small-print three-column pages in the Congressional Record. He called the remark "subversive," "evil," "sinister," "untruthful," "hysterical" and "unpatriotic...
...South Gate, Calif. (1958 sales: $8,000,000 ). The four brothers this year will market 50 models, including starfish-and boomerang-shaped pools, priced from $2,800, expect sales to top $10 million. For the nation's largest pool-equipment maker, Swimquip, Inc. of El Monte, Calif., the torrent of 1959 business has come so fast that all materials allocated for the first half were used up in the first quarter. Said President William O. Baker: "This year the business has gone crazy...
...Matawhero's shirt must be tucked in, Dennis' lost pencil found, Twinnie's tears crooned away, lice plucked from Mere's hair. And more screams: "Miss Popoff, Seven he's trying to kill us all with the axe for nutteen!" Anna revels in the torrent of these different personalities, faces and colors. She thinks to herself that if she had ever borne children she would have wanted them this way-the "offspring of many sires...