Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then it was all over. "That's it," announced Rose, whereupon the lights went up and the audience broke into a torrent of applause. Then everybody lined up to shake-as one greying matron put it -"the hand that rocked the cradle of the President...
...speech started off like just one more of his exhaustive exhortations for harder work by party bosses and factory hands. But by the time he was through, three hours later, his rambling remarks in the Kremlin's Palace of the Co gresses had touched off a fresh torrent of speculation about the future leadership of the Soviet Union. And all because of a few vague sentences about old age. Mused the Kremlin commissar: "Here am I, a man of the older generation . . . I am already 69, and everyone knows that I cannot hold forever the positions I now hold...
...hills and cliffs and pouring into the Siq as into a funnel. One Italian pilgrim said, "We heard shrieks and cries within the ravine, as the muddy cascade of water rushed by us. We saw the little car with the four women and the driver swept along by the torrent and then submerged. In an instant, they all disappeared in the floodwaters raging along at perhaps 60 miles an hour...
This touches off the torrent of language, the beautiful cadences of the Irish tongue, that ripples and sometimes spews through John Millington Synge's 1907 comedy. Such talk has not been heard since the poets of the Dingle Bay, and it very nearly keeps this straightforward and modest little film version of Playboy out of trouble. But trouble there is. Siobhan McKenna, for all her gloriously peat boggy voice and her fine face with its mouth shaped like a shamrock leaf, is 20 years too old to be playing the fiery-tempered Pegeen opposite the likes of boyish Gary...
...poor of the earth on the march," writes Arendt, "where they left the obscurity of their misfortunes and streamed upon the marketplace, their furor seemed as irresistible as the motion of the stars, a tor rent rushing forward with elemental force and engulfing a whole world." When the torrent receded, the rocky economic facts remained...