Word: whirlwinding
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...dying of cancer and, at this time, when she most wants to be alone with her thoughts, away from a world which has most of the material structure and none of the spirit of her dream, her children, in a misguided effort to cheer her up, take her on whirlwind visits of scattered relatives. They are hurt by her resentment that they cannot understand for they have never had what their father has forgotten and mother still believes...
...Krokodiloes, a 13-man singing group affiliated with the Hasty Pudding Club, returned last week from a whirlwind tour of Puerto Rico, which intoned a special performance for Munoz Marin, governor of the Island...
Tossing aside the vast services to mankind that enlightened colonialism has performed, Sartre suggested that France had sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind. He intoned: "While our former colonial subjects are discovering their humanity, we seem to be losing ours. We gained our manhood at their expense; now they are gaining their manhood at ours. The colonized peoples are rebuilding their lives while we - ultras and liberals, French settlers in Algeria and Frenchmen at home - find ourselves disintegrating. Fury and fear are naked everywhere...
...week in Chicago. 35-year-old Carter was pitted against tough Ray Bluth of St. Louis in the final round of the World's Invitational Bowling Tournament, for first-place prize money of $7,500. Trailing by 54 pins with two games to go, Carter staged a typically whirlwind finish, rolling games of 249 and 258 (to Bluth's 223 and 190). His 64-game average of 221 set a new scoring record for the tournament; the victory was his fourth in the five years that the tournament has been held. The only time Don Carter failed...
...India--Asoka to Khrishna Menon--in their Soc Sci 116. If these countries fail to entice, Merle Fainsod, back at his old listening post, continues his love-hate relationship with the Soviet dictatorship (in Gov. 115); and Professor Homans continues his simple love affair with early England, in a whirlwind tour of twelve-and-a-half centuries (!)--the course number...