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Vanishing Torrent. Dripping wet from the water trickling down the chimney's walls and shivering with cold, Lépineux was brought to the surface three hours and 40 minutes later. During the descent, the spinning cable had made the walls seem to revolve so fast in the light of his head lamp that he had almost been sick. But once on the bottom, he had felt up to a little exploring...
...torrent of anti-British, anti-U.S. feeling, his successor, Mohammed Mossadeq, prepared to implement a bill which...
Your careful analysis ... of the . . . controversy manifests that the MacArthurites would "carry a big stick," while the Administration has been content to "speak softly" [TiME, April 30]. The Communists have long ago proven they respect the "big stick" more than any torrent of words or attempt at conciliation across the conference table...
From the moment the general's motorcade moved off, the city's great towers-which stood clean and glowing under a bright blue sky-resounded to a flowing torrent of sound. At the tip of Manhattan it increased. Ships and tugs lent their whistles to the din. Then, lower Broadway -the financial district's Canyon of Heroes -began to resound to the clop of police horses, the crash of brass bands, as paraders moved out to lead MacArthur a mile; to City Hall. History's greatest fall of paper, ticker tape and torn telephone books...
...disagreement for a long time. Lincoln (like MacArthur) believed that McClellan's mission was to defeat the enemy. McClellan (like Truman) believed that the objective was to defend a piece of ground. McClellan (like MacArthur) had thousands of devoted admirers, and his removal was certain to bring a torrent of political criticism down on Lincoln's head...