Word: whirlpooling
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...defense bases and army-navy-air power; they may still be nodding when the argument is persuasively made for at least the short-run military impenetrability of the Western Hemisphere. But as the authors draw steadily away from the safe ground of indisputable fact and into the whirlpool of opinion, this head, at least, registers dissent. Wide though the military and strategic knowledge of Messrs. MacLiesh and Cushman may be, they are entirely out of the narrow limitations which they can has to in the earlier part of the book when they reject the idea of getting into...
...world watched the U. S. whirlpool, to see what river might flow out of its settling. France had fallen before it knew what the war was about; England, taken suddenly by the throat, hadn't had time to figure things out. The U. S., under the impression that there was still time and room to make up its mind, was arguing along as it always had: in straggling, disputative, disorderly democracy...
...Make Bright the Arrows Millay lashes out at the warring world like a lady octopus caught in a whirlpool. Giving her native impetuosity and her Vassar graduate's well-educated illusions and disillusions free play, she writes her verses mostly in three ill-assorted styles...
...precarious hold on the overturned boats, were swept away. Within half an hour of the attack the ship itself heeled over and disappeared, its captain standing at the stern, shouting: "Get into the boats and look after yourselves." Many went down with it, still more were sucked into the whirlpool. House-high waves twisted and filled the boats, swamped several. Rain and hail and wind tortured the survivors to unconsciousness and death...
Last week, in a dimly lit room in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, a crowd of robust young women gathered around a bubbling sitz bath, hidebound corsets, steel braces. Some bent over a baby kicking mightily in a whirlpool bathtub (Currence Underwater Therapy Tank). The place looked like a medieval torture chamber, but the young women meant no harm: they were only members of the American Physiotherapy Association, holding their 19th annual convention...