Word: whirlwinding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force budget cuts too complaisantly, of refusing to be "tarred with the Air Force brush" because he wanted to maintain the neutrality necessary to succeed Wilson as Defense Secretary: Although Quarles's friends give him high marks for his service impartiality, he is in danger of reaping the whirlwind of Charlie Wilson's mistakes. New Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy leans on him less and less...
Easing into a New World. Last May Glenwood got a new superintendent, young (32) Alfred Sasser Jr., who had put through a whirlwind program of reform at Muscatatuck State School in Indiana (TIME, Oct. 18, 1954). Though his budget had been closed, Sasser talked legislators into reopening it, got extra funds for psychologists, trained technicians and essential equipment-an electroencephalograph, an audiometer, etc. Sasser also decided to retest the IQs of his 1,866 charges. In addition to Mayo Buckner, who scored 120, a dozen other patients were found to have IQs over 90 and to be well equipped...
...After a whirlwind of paperwork, Ike flew with Mamie to Augusta at week's end, where-between alternate engagements at the links and in his office-he munched (in the Kelly green coat of the exclusive Augusta National Golf Club) crackers from the "Eisenhower Cracker Barrel," a pine-wooded whimsical memento contributed by Treasury ex-Secretary George Humphrey. Rising to the folksiness of the occasion, Ike said between munches, "There'll be no trouble from here on out for the world...
...friend (Alan Bates) sprawls over the Sunday papers, Jimmy Porter looses his bilious scorn, like a revolving gun turret, on everything within range: art, religion, radio, Sunday, England and, again and again, his wife and mother-in-law. As minutely venomous as a wasp, as sweepingly violent as a whirlwind, his mockery sauced with self-pity, his growl subsiding in a whine, he brings to a vast repository of grievances a commensurate repertory of abuse...
Three months ago, at 60, Kishi became his country's Premier. Last week he set out on a whirlwind tour of "Positive Asian Diplomacy," through Formosa, Burma, Thailand, India, Pakistan and Ceylon, in preparation for a visit to Washington. His purpose: to persuade his neighbors that the new Japan was anxious to cooperate "in a spirit of modesty to achieve mutual prosperity by combining American capital, Japanese technology and local resources...