Word: tumults
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...tumult set a yeasty, young Assistant Naval Secretary named Theodore Roosevelt in motion. Spain's best colony, he reasoned, was not in the Caribbean. It was practically under the guns of Commodore George Dewey's Pacific Fleet. Promptly, and without any authorization, Teddy Roosevelt ordered Dewey to attack the Philippines if war came. Dewey's response was an overwhelming victory. Suddenly, although nobody yet realized it, the U.S. had an empire...
...been drowned by the tumult of Washington's inflation wrangles, the voice of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner S. Eccles might often have been heard quietly protesting the "monetization of the public debt." He did not like the way a large proportion of Treasury borrowing had been financed by bank credit, which added to the supply of money, instead of by individuals, which contracted the supply...
...years later the team of Kaye & Eisen was still no farther than the borsch summer-resort circuit in the Catskills. Here, besides being straight entertainers, they were also what is known as "tumulers"-aides of the hotel manager who, on rainy days, were sent out to "make with the tumult" and, by distracting disgruntled guests, prevent them from checking out. Kaye & Eisen did their tumuling by chasing each other through the halls with meat cleavers, jumping into fish ponds...
...herself George Sand died in 1876, she was regarded as France's most brilliant woman novelist. She was also the world's most talked-about feminist. No woman writer since Sappho had made such an impression on her male contemporaries, or left in her wake such a tumult of debate. The public had heard her called everything from whore to angel. Now Biographer Frances Winwar (who changed her own name from Vinciguerra) has retold the story of George Sand with a tenderness, knowledge and enthusiasm that are likely to stir up the old debate and make The Life...
...Overtime. While the plant came apart around him, quiet, durable, skilled mechanic Emil Koch, 39, went right on working on the last of the big searchlights he would help build for the Navy. He was used to tumult...