Word: torrents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Participation in such Luce talk demanded adherence to certain rigorous requirements: 1) intellectual convictions, backed up by 2) hard facts, and presented with 3) a delicate sense of timing that could only be acquired by experience. For Luce would often come to a dead stop in his torrent of words, while he thought out the next phase of his argument, and into such 30-second silences many a tyro editor or visitor blundered, thinking it was his turn to talk at last. The fate of such rushers-in was painful to behold: they could...
...last century called a "London particular," glides up to a luckless trollop, and with a knife at least as big as the minute hand on Big Ben opens the poor girl from 'ere to 'ere. At such moments Hill hoses the screen with such a preposterous torrent of catchup that gross horror becomes Grand Guignol, and even the squeamish should concede that his sense of humor is simply ripping...
...water into the Arno, the Po and their tributaries. In the mountain resort of Alleghe, a hotel employee reported that the nearby lake was overflowing its banks, pushing whole forests down the sides of the mountain. In the Trentino region near Austria, 30,000 persons were left homeless. The torrent uprooted vineyards in Chianti-producing Tuscany and massacred livestock in a region that produces most of Italy's meat. In Venice, it heavily damaged some 7,000 shops, though canal-traveling Venetians were better able to ride out the crisis than the Florentines...
...learning the red-taped ropes of diplomacy. Days, including Saturday and most of Sunday, have begun shortly after 8 a.m., ended 13 hours later. After 21 straight days without going home for dinner, Katzenbach finally had his family to supper with him at Foggy Bottom, then plowed through the torrent of dispatches at his desk while his children watched Tarzan on the undersecretarial color...
Pacifist Protest. Virtually ignoring the torrent of expensive wedding gifts, White House handouts played up the sentimental, homey and offbeat: from Uncle Tony Taylor in Texas, a set of six silver syllabub cups that had belonged to Grandmother Minnie Lee Patillo Taylor; Texas-shaped cookie cutters from Mrs. Jake Pickle, wife of the Congressman who holds L.B.J.'s old seat; from Mrs. Orville Freeman, a jeweled Pakistani nose ring, symbolizing female submission to her mate (who, vows the bride, will never become "Mister Luci Johnson"). The bipartisan House leadership took up a collection for a congressional gift, but Iowa...