Word: whirlwinding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg
NONFICTION: The Eisenhower Diaries, edited by Robert H. Ferrell Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, Dumas Malone ∙The Lord God Made Them All, James Herriot ∙Mornings on Horseback, David McCullough ∙Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, Jacobo Timerman ∙Within the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg
Wearing red berets or khaki forage caps emblazoned with buttons, Scout knives dangling from every webbed belt, the youngsters here plunge into seven days of whirlwind activity. They compete in a wilderness decathlon, pitch horseshoes, brand leather, play soccer and Frisbee, build a bridge without any rope, set up a tent blindfolded, run an obstacle course with arms tied, fish, canoe, raft, fire air rifles on a marksmanship range...
...next spring. Says one minister: "Things will never be quite the same after last Thursday." A growing number of Conservative backbenchers fear that their constituents are fast losing patience with the sacrifices demanded by Thatcherism. Warned one Cabinet minister: "We must recapture the middle ground or suffer a whirlwind of discontent...
NONFICTION: The Eisenhower Diaries, edited by Robert H. Ferrell Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, Dumas Malone ∙ The Lord God Made Them All, James Herriot ∙ Mornings on Horseback, David McCullough ∙ Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, Jacobo Timerman ∙ Within the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg