Word: whirlwinding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...release of captured American Navy Flyer Lieut. Robert Goodman, critics accused Jackson of violating the Logan Act of 1799, which makes it a crime for any private citizen to try to influence a foreign government on issues involving a controversy with the U.S. Now, on his whirlwind six-day tour of Panama City, San Salvador, Havana and Managua, the self-assured Jackson had gratuitously injected himself into the flammable arena of Central American politics...
...story wooden building. Ushered to the second floor of Pastora's headquarters, the journalists found the guerrilla commander at a narrow table. After some cheerful banter, the questioning began. Suddenly, in the middle of a response, a bomb exploded in a white-hot flash. "It was a human whirlwind," said José Antonio Venegas, a photographer for La Nation, a Costa Rican newspaper. "Blood splashed against the walls, people flew through the windows. Someone screamed, 'Save me, help me, don't leave me here!' All I knew was that hell was there on the edge...
...sell for $2,495. From the side, Macintosh looks like an offspring of E.T. and R2-D2 that might start walking. But the fuss is also about Apple, the company that likes to say it invented the personal computer. If Apple is to beat back IBM and continue the whirlwind progress that has taken it on a seven-year ride from manufacturing in a California garage to annual sales of $1 billion, Macintosh must be a triumph...
Governor Long was impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives. Proceedings were dropped when it became apparent he had sufficient friends in the Louisiana Senate to make his trial by that body a farce. TIME reported the Long campaign promises, the whirlwind Long reforms including making cobblers out of convicts...
...Little Joe is winding down now, but for five seasons, not just the two years he was MVP of the National League, Morgan was the whirlwind in Cincinnati's Big Red Machine, and over his 21-year career he has been the most powerful and productive second baseman since Rogers Hornsby. Morgan meets the simplest Hall of Fame criterion. He was the best second baseman of his era. Even in his dotage, Morgan showed others how to win. Possibly 'his enthusiasm for canonizations is affected by a premonition that Morgan's and Rose's silent partner...