Word: whirlpool
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...With such] forceful stimulation as this tragedy one's mental processes respond rapidly. I had given up all hope of recovery. I sensed the situation of snowy waters, consequent cramps, the rugged rocks which I at that moment was bumping, the bottomless whirlpool, the 'hellespontiac' current of the waters and the boulders against which my head would surely be dashed. . . . Just then the spray lifted my glasses off my nose, thank goodness, for then at least my eyes would have a chance to hold the pennies to pay Charon. . . . [Then I learned] that St. Peter had rejected...
...straits of Election Year, between the Rock of Taxes and the Whirlpool of Deficit, he realized last week that it would require serious effort on his part to find a safe political passage. Secretary Morgenthau conferred with him nearly every day. Budget Director Bell, Secretaries Wallace and Ickes, Assistant WPAdministrator Williams, RFChairman Jones, Rexford G. Tugwell, Chester Davis, Housing Administrator McDonald came & went. It would be safer to steer a little toward the Rock of Taxes, for the Congressional current would suck him back anyway to the Whirlpool. Hence he confirmed the fact that he would ask about half...
...censure from Author Hugh Waipole and critics who believe that fiction should be polite. Deeply influenced by Balzac and Turgenev, James Hanley has a special dislike for the romances of Joseph Conrad, writes that he is "mostly interested in the insignificant. The more insignificant a person is in this whirlpool of industrialized and civilized society, the more important...
...boatmen found the headwaters of the Rio da Dúvida and started down it in rough dugout canoes. The river, winding northward through precipitous canyons toward the Equator, almost beat them. There were grueling portages around roaring rapids. Fever and bloodsucking insects sapped their strength. Once, when a whirlpool caught a canoe, a porter was drowned and Kermit nearly perished. They eked out their provisions by eating monkeys, Brazil nuts, honey, birds, turtles, fish, palm tops. Leader Roosevelt slept in a cot, which toward the end sagged badly; the others slept in hammocks. One day, to Roosevelt...
...movies, "Murder in Trinidad" manages to baffle until nearly the end. To discover a ring of diamond, smugglers is the task of Detective Nigel Bruce. Munching peanuts, looking dumb, he succeeds, after his antagonists have been able to commit only two murders, in outwitting them. Intermittently, caught in the whirlpool of tropical action, Miss Heather Angel and a recent British import named Douglas Walton add standard Hollywood romance to the picture. A motorboat chase and an expedition through a quicksand swamp form the principal excitements of the film, but it is the acting of Mr. Bruce and his cohorts which...