Word: whirlpools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
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...
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...