Word: whirlpooling
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Merry-Go-Round. In Saint John, New Brunswick, Alphonse Arsenault plunged, fully clothed, into roaring Reversing Falls, which nobody had ever survived, got caught in a huge whirlpool that spun him merry-go-round while he shouted "Whoops," two minutes later washed him ashore, still whooping, 100 yards downstream...
...warships tore into them on the north coast road; the Royal Navy ripped the highway on the island's other side. Over Messina converged the Allied air arm, bombing and gunning, by day and night, the barges and small boats shuttling Germans from Sicily to Italy, from the whirlpool of Charybdis to the rock of Scylla...
Caught in the whirlpool, General Draja Mihailovich is operating in general to the southeast of the area held by the Partisans. He has been receiving arms from the Italians. According to the Yugoslav Government in Exile, Mihailovich got arms from the Italians ostensibly to fight the Partisans, but actually put them away for future anti-Axis operations...
...first place, the Marines' beachhead on Guadalcanal is important by the mere fact of its having been the first offensive U.S. battlefield against the Japs. It has become the vortex of a naval whirlpool which may easily engulf either adversary. But beyond that it is a geographic key. If the U.S. loses Guadalcanal, the Japanese can press on with relative ease, take the whole chain of islands down through the New Hebrides to New Caledonia (see map), and then have only the narrow moat of the Coral Sea between them and Australia. But if the U.S. holds Guadalcanal...
...ever-present threats within as well as without which demand a liberal dose of "eternal vigilance." What about Georgia's Governor Talmadge, the Dies and Rapp-Coudert committees, the hounding intolerance of the "justice" dealt out to Bridges and Browder? These are sinister ripples which could easily become a whirlpool of suppression. However fine the direction of Roosevelt's foreign policy, what about the hypocrisy and backhandedness of his means? What about the banning from the ballot of the Socialists in many states last November, and the New York business men's conference which avowed a preference toward fascism over...