Word: whirlwinding
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...State Department, the Pentagon and Capitol Hill. By 11:30 they had closed the high doors of the Cabinet Room behind them. Outside 100 reporters thronged the executive lobby or stood by telephones in the adjacent press room. Exactly at noon, Presidential Secretary Charles Ross stirred them into a whirlwind as he passed out the text of the gravest, hardest-hitting answer to aggression that the U.S. has ever made in its peacetime history...
Died. Charles Lanier Lawrance, 67, pioneering designer of air-cooled airplane engines, including the 200 h.p. Wright Whirlwind that powered Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis; of a heart ailment; in East Islip, N.Y. Taking little credit for his achievements, Lawrance once modestly asked: "Who ever heard the name of Paul Revere's horse...
When genial, whirlwind Managing Editor Lloyd Downs Lewis emptied out his desk at the Chicago Daily News one day in 1945 and said goodbye to his staff, he was headed for no slippered retirement. Instead he went off to his home in suburban Libertyville, Ill. to get busy on the biggest story of his career: the life of General Ulysses S. Grant...
...blind, look into the stark reality; if you insist on exploiting God's poor for the fattest profit you can get today, you are going to lose everything tomorrow, your capital, your business, your profits, probably your very life ... in . . . the whirlwind of social upheaval...
...foresaw during that campaign," said Irving Ives, "that the deliberate partisan effort to injure Mr. Dulles' reputation . . . was striking a dangerous blow at the cause of bipartisanship ... I am constrained to observe that those who sow the wind should not be surprised if they sometimes reap the whirlwind...