Word: whirlpooling
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...story "Decision" under the heading "Heroes" [TIME, July 22] is an absolute masterpiece of literary art: "Veteran Loos, like the other tourists, had a moment for decision. He made it. . . ." and ". . . Then Orville Loos and the boy who was his friend for a few seconds were dead in the whirlpool below...
...groped, seized him again and held on. From the platform, the tourists caught a fleeting glimpse of two heads in the curve of water at the fall's edge. Then Orville Loos and the boy who was his friend for a few seconds were dead in the whirlpool below...
...wanted nothing for myself. The French revolution gave the world the rights of man and the Russian revolution also gave us something new, but I did not want to start today where they had started in 1917. I never wanted the old Yugoslavia. ... I was caught in a whirlpool of events. . . . Believing that the world would take the course of the Russian revolution I was caught by the [policy of] the Western democracies. They [the democracies] are for our peoples' good, and so are the Russians...
Caught in the middle of an economic whirlpool that seems ready to submerge the veteran almost immediately, the G.I. student rates a better break, be it only a bookkeeping service. Monthly bills could be met with monthly allotments in a simple and uncomplicated procedure that would keep everybody happy. At least this revision would cost the University nothing and might prevent the kind of financial acrobatics that most men are in school to avoid...
Himself a little man, born at Scylla, not far from mythical Charybdis, in the Straits of Messina, he had long tossed between the rock of poverty and the whirlpool of Fascist repression. Until the blackshirts fell, he had eked out an existence as a statistician. Then, on Columbus Day, 1944, he had rediscovered America for his countrymen...