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Word: torrent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plexiglas canopy had been jettisoned in the first attempt at bailout, so, as the plane knifed ahead at 400 knots, Obie's face was seared by the sharp, -30° wind, by whipped dust, bits of wire and insulation. His eyelids rolled back in the fierce air torrent. He dropped his amber-tinted visor over his tearing eyes-but he could not read his instruments again without lifting it. His gloved hands froze to near helplessness. Under his seat was the armed, unexploded powder charge that had failed to fire his seat out of the cockpit in the early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: How Obie Won His Medal | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...peoples of the world until they have learned to understand and respect it. He knows too that understanding and respect begin at home. He originated the the idea of the first Law Day as an opportunity for lawyers and laymen, too long carried headlong in the seething, exciting torrent of codes and laws, to take reflective inventory, to study and ponder the law's past and its present-from which it must derive its future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: The Work of Justice | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...page report that the Church of England avoid opposing birth control. "The more we understand of our procreative powers," said the report, "the more responsible we are for the way in which we use them. If our conscience will not tolerate, when we know how to prevent it, a torrent of infant deaths, no more should we, with the knowledge we have, encourage an ungoverned spate of unwanted births...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...Skaubryn plowed through the long swells of the Indian Ocean, six days south of Suez, bound for Australia with 1,088 passengers-mostly German and Maltese emigrants-and a crew of 200. At 8:45 p.m. trouble broke out in the engine room. A disconnected fuel line spurted a torrent of oil ?. onto red-hot exhaust pipes. Within seconds, the engine room was a coiling mass of flames. The engine-room crew were driven out before they could even shut off the spurting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INDIAN OCEAN: Men & the Sea | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...Dyck gained freshness and spontaneity by painting directly on the canvas after only the barest preliminary sketches. His armed soldiers enter the picture like a torrent, then eddy about the calm figure of Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MOMENT OF TREACHERY | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

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