Word: welter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That's not so far from the truth, either! That is what I meant when I mentioned 'great American journalism.' The welter of detail sometimes gets so confusing on this end that it's a pleasure to sit down and read the story after someone has taken the time to whittle down the detail and reduce everything to its proper proportion...
Gladys Davis' backstage scenes were dashing, sensuous records of ballet biography. Typical was Changing Costumes, a crowded dressing-room scene featuring ballerinas sprawled in narcissistic attitudes in a welter of make-up bottles, ribbons, slippers, mirrors, electric glares...
Thanksgiving Day, between midnight and dawn, a scouting U.S. destroyer force intercepted six Jap light cruisers or de stroyers in the waters northwest of Bougainville. Two of the surprised enemy were quickly dispatched by torpedoes. The remainder turned stern in a welter of American shellfire. Hard-driving Captain Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke...
Satisfied WPB. Out of the huddle of conferences and the welter of staggering facts leaked one shocker: the Kaiser-Hughes plane, the largest ever built, will carry 700 soldiers fully equipped. Or it could evacuate 550 wounded...
Last Word. In the welter of rumor, one explanation floated to the top. The explanation: Hudson and the Navy had bickered over Navy's intent to shift the arsenal away from mass production and to turn it into a gigantic repair shop and manufacturer of "custom-built" Navy products. According to this version the Navy had highhandedly settled the argument by its Commando raid...