Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is evidence that Communist parties in Italy and France, as well as Spain, are exerting considerable pressure on the Portuguese left to go slowly so as not to provoke a torrent of reaction all across the Continent. The Soviet strategy, meanwhile, has been to offer adroit public reassurances of its friendship, send to Lisbon what one Western diplomat describes as "every dance troupe and chorus in Russia" and quietly beef up the sizable staff it has had quartered in a modern office building in Lisbon since diplomatic relations were established last year...
...fine--we see the traditional Wild West conflicts emerging immediately--the hanging judge is looking for some new sucker to don the marshall's badge, the old lawman having been gunned down shortly after the curtain rises. But then authors Christopher Harding and Robert Mack let loose a torrent of subplots including a twins mix-up a governor's race, a will succession controversy, three romances and a dead heiress masquerading as a bartender...
...woman deemed mad by society because she was more loving than she was supposed to be--and place it in some kind of historical framework. It didn't work. The problem was that our minds worked differently; our mainsprings were as different as a housebroken canal and a frenzied torrent...
...torrent of screaming black mothers: faces stretched wide in terror, skin dewy in fight, peels back from the front. They have pulled the wings of their coats over their children. From beneath his mother's mantle, a boy whoops with delight...
...author of such books as Madison Avenue, U.S.A. and The Lawyers, examines the standards used by banks to decide who will-and who will not-get a personal loan. He looks into the cozy relationships between many senior loan officers and their favorite corporate clients and considers the swelling torrent of bank paper work-28 billion checks in 1974 alone-that each year threatens to swamp the entire system...