Word: whirlwinding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is nothing more improbable in politics than that Mr. Bevan will succeed." Bitterest of all was the Laborite tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,500,000): "Again he has shown that the greatest blunder the party could make would be to elect him leader . . . For who can follow a whirlwind? How can a man who does not give loyalty expect to command loyalty from others...
...have a red carpet, "he said. "We'll strew orchids." But a whirlwind of mis fortune was shattering Tommy's dream...
...whirlwind next struck at Tommy's parking garages and in a few gusts forced him to quit the gubernatorial race. A contractor named Dominic Piracci, who seemed to have a corner on the city's garage-building business, was convicted of fraud, conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Piracci and Tommy had long been friends, even before Piracci's daughter, Margie, married Tommy D'Alesandro...
...LIFE (1942-44); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In August 1939, Davenport met Lawyer Wendell Willkie at a FORTUNE round table, zealously set out to promote him as a presidential candidate, managed the Willkie strategy at the 1940 Republican Convention, headed the Willkie brain trust during the whirlwind 1940 campaign...
...another fight last week, television fans and 4,200 jampacked customers in a Brooklyn skating rink caught a short glimpse of an up-and-coming heavyweight who throws such a whirlwind of punches that he is nicknamed "Hurricane" Tommy Jackson, 22, a product of the Georgia cotton fields who carries a Bible with him although he cannot read, whipsawed Dan Bucceroni, third-ranked heavyweight, into helplessness in six rounds...