Word: whirlwinding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though ashamed of the whirlwind it had reaped, the government made no attempt to discourage pilgrimages to the churches; polite cops guarding the damaged properties interfered with nobody and even saluted priests...
...tornado, sixth and worst in Blackwell since 1912, destroyed and damaged 500 houses, hurt 493 people and killed 19, caused a $10 million loss. The whirlwind ripped surfaces off the highways, wrapped a big electric refrigerator around a tree stump, tossed a wrecked pickup truck onto the second floor of a ruined brick house. Sweeping north across the amber wheat, the deadly funnel killed one family's five children in Oxford, Kans. A farmer three miles south of Udall saw it coming: "It sounded like a bunch of jets and looked black as an oil slush pond. I didn...
Instead, Morison wound up his History 160c in whirlwind style with a few comments on the American Revolution; that educated people cannot call it inevitable, and a note or two on history, that historical causes are never simple...
From this time (1937) forward, Peter went about his Father's business at the whirlwind pace of a religious tycoon. When he was not converting a sin-sick Senator, he was charging down to Annapolis to read a sizzling sermon over the midshipmen, or bellowing Mairzy Boats at the church canteen for servicemen, or batting out flies with the kids on the parking lot, or marrying some sailor and his girl, or harrying the hangbacks on his board of trustees...
...thing to herald a new performer. But the New York Times's Olin Downes published a rave. "The pianist who adequately performs the part needs endless strength, swiftness and must be something of a cyclone at the keyboard . . . Mr. Scarpini fulfilled the requirements ... a pianist of prodigious capacities . . . whirlwind virtuosity and rhythmic drive." The rest of the press agreed...