Word: whirlwinding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relations with Brazil, Argentina's traditional South American rival, always get correspondingly better. Last week U.S.-Brazilian relations were proceeding famously: on the eve of a state visit by Dean Acheson, a U.S. task force led by the 37,000-ton carrier Oriskany, dazzled Rio in a whirlwind call...
Dust storm: a violent, dust-laden whirlwind moving across an arid region. The air is very hot, excessively dry, and attended by high electrical tension...
When Collier's hired gravel-voiced Louis Ruppel as editor three years ago, it knew it was buying a whirlwind. His gusty formula to cure the ailing magazine: 1) "an expose a week," 2) a drastic staff shakeup. Last week, after three years of the Ruppel treatment, the whirlwind blew itself out. Up on Collier's bulletin board went a tight-lipped announcement: "The resignation of Louis Ruppel as editor of Collier's was announced today by Clarence E. Stouch, president of the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co." Surprised staffers got no explanation of the break...
Attack. During Ruppel's regime, the magazine's circulation went up slightly, but not the way it was expected to under the whirlwind treatment. Crowell-Collier's profits, which had been down, kept dropping steeply. Such scare tricks as Collier's "Preview of the War We Do Not Want" issue (TIME, Oct. 29 et seq.) gave circulation a temporary lift, but earned Collier's thousands of adverse critics around the world...
...Africa's highest court. His administration tottered, and considered dangerous alternatives. The restless and politically awakening Negroes scheduled nationwide demonstrations in protests against his policy. The possibility of civil war hovered over South Africa, and a desperate decision faced Daniel François Malan, who had sown the whirlwind...