Word: whirlpooling
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Back at the airstrip, our escorts fidgeted nervously and kept glancing at the Communist-held hills as darkness settled down. As we winged back through the night, the wind from the open hatch spun the dust on the floor in a whirlpool, picked up a small cardboard tag torn off a shipping crate. The tag told the poignant story of the rapidity of China's retreat: It said: "To Mukden...
...perilous Africa cliché, reminiscent of Hollywood's stock treatment: "Well," he muttered, staring up at the constellations, "don't go too deep into Africa. Don't try to grasp her. Don't try to penetrate her. Don't get sucked into the whirlpool. The deeper you go, the more poisonous she grows. Take my word for it. You'll end by going mad . . ." Storm and Echo will give many readers the same wrung-out feeling they'd get from seeing a dozen performances of White Cargo...
TIME, on the edge of this whirlpool, rashly promised its readers to tell what the news meant, to get it all into proper perspective. Even more rashly, it asked to be judged not by how much information it got between its covers, but by how much it got off its pages into the minds of its readers...
News of the suspension of Swarthmore's weekly The Phoenix, because it printed an editorial on Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" stirred up a whirlpool of protest among former Swarthmore men now in University graduate schools, and Swarthmore President John Nason may soon be bombarded with letters from Cambridge attacking his cease and desist order...
Harvard is no exception. President Eliot may reform, concentration may battle distribution, General Education may arise from an academic whirlpool--but for the student, learning remains a process of absorption for 16 or fewer weeks and disgorging of knowledge for three hours at the conclusion of said process...