Word: whirlwind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Obviously tired but exuberant, like many another tourist returning from a whirlwind trip to Europe, Ronald Reagan had an inspirational thought for the 15,000 well-wishers who gathered at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington Friday night to welcome him home. In 10,659 miles of travel through five nations in ten days, and meetings with a Pope, a Queen and heads of government of the 15 other NATO countries, the President discovered that "America has a lot of friends." Reagan noted that he had told West Germans, and by extension all of America's allies...
...whirlwind of information at once distant from the main theme of schooling and integrally wound up in this thing called Harvard Checks and money orders to Account No. 22270045 at New England Merchant Bank swirl in the maelstrom. Beware, you soccer players. "All payment must be made in U.S. dollars Foreign currency will not be accepted." Welcomed here MasterCard, Visa, traveler's checks and cash. The author seems to imply that tipping is not required, yet the idea is a vague one, drifting slowly into an early-morning must over the River Charles...
...Français Maestro Banchet puts on a gala performance for two seatings a night, six nights a week. From noon to midnight he prowls the stainless-steel corridors of his ultramodern kitchen, setting a whirlwind pace for his 32-member staff. "Sacrebleu! Sacrebleu!" he shouts at a sous-chef when something goes wrong. One minute he is throwing whole fistfuls of truffles into a twelve-quart mixing bowl. Next he starts a pheasant paté, followed by a lobster and crayfish mousse. Tasting each creation in turn, he makes several mid-course corrections, adding a little salt here...
...wind-down of the longest sustained inflationary surge in the nation's history. A year ago, the woozy U.S. economy was wobbling atop a seemingly endless inflationary spiral, traumatizing families everywhere with the vision of a lifetime of work and savings being eroded to nothing by the whirlwind of runaway prices...
...churning through Central America last week. Throughout the isthmus, a fight for power is evolving between extremists on the far right and on the far left that is leaving leaders who are even vaguely in the middle in an increasingly exposed and perilous position. For the Reagan Administration, the whirlwind of revolt and repression poses special and hazardous problems as it tries to find ways of helping the moderates and of bringing stability to a region that is in America's backyard...