Word: whirlwinding
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Aside from Mr. Whorf, the cast includes other notables such as Philip Bourneuf, Frances Reid, Polly Rowles, and Grace Coppin. The performances of Mr. Bourneuf and Miss Coppin seem to stand up best in the vacuum that follows Mr. Whorf's whirlwind...
...galvanized into action. Dressing like a whirlwind, his mind working like a cog, he began to work over countless fearless and colorful ideas. What, for instance, had become of the Student Council's perennially incipient investigation of food? An opening sentence popped into his teeming brain: "Neither the food nor the Student Council has shown any signs of improvement recently...
...this chamber that protrous are sent spinning at whirlwind velocities before they crash into fissionable material. However, all the air must be removed so that the protons will not collide with stray atoms in their path. This is the reason for the vacuum...
...American Council is headed by big, bluff Sir Frederick Bain, deputy chairman of Imperial Chemicals and head of the Federation of British Industries; the U.S. contingent by Board Chairman Philip Reed of General Electric. The council met for the first time late in October, then set off on a whirlwind tour of factories-electrical and mechanical engineering, clothing, tire and radio plants near London, machine tool and auto plants in Birmingham, textile factories in Bradford, pottery works in Stoke, the busy Clydeside shipyards in Glasgow...
Some notable GOP Senators managed to hand on to their chairs. Leverett Saltonstall stood firmly against the Massachusetts whirlwind, and Homer Ferguson successfully resisted the kind of assault in Michigan that ousted Republican Governor Kim Sigler. Other Republicans were safe in densely-GOP states; Bridges in New Hampshire, and Wherry in Nebraska, for example...