Word: whirlwinding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handled India's foreign relations, Patel shaped much of the nation's domestic policy. As Home Minister, he used his police to suppress Communist terrorism and to "discipline" troublesome labor unions. As States Minister, he brought India's 550-odd feudal princelings to heel. (In one whirlwind 96-hour tour he pressured two dozen princes into surrendering their political powers, thus added 8,000,000 people and 56,000 square miles to the Dominion of India.) Together with his many friends among India's industrialists, he worked successfully to modify Nehru's socialist tendencies...
Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer had twirled like a weathercock in a whirlwind over the problem of jug-eared Michael Lee, controversial chief of Commerce's Far Eastern Branch. Last spring, when a Senate subcommittee began gesturing at Lee's loyalty, Sawyer said: "He's one of our best men . . . We're ready to fight...
...when I began buying your comics for my children. At all times of the day my five-year-old son will poke one of them in my face and ask me to explain it to him ... It seems crazy from the beginning. How am I to explain this mad whirlwind of animals rushing about in cars, getting entangled in telephone wires, or being blown to bits by explosives...
...Argentine Air Ministry is Werner Baumbach, onetime Luftwaffe bomber pilot who claims to have sunk 300,000 tons of British shipping. Another Air Ministry adviser is Adolf Galland, onetime Inspector General of the Luftwaffe Fighter Command. Working with Designer Tank is Hans Ulrich Rudel, a one-legged whirlwind credited with sinking the Russian battleship Marat and two cruisers, as well as knocking out a record of 532 tanks...
...latest in the recent flurry of American editions of Joyce Cary is "A Fearful Joy"--a whirlwind story and a humorous report on four generations of England...