Word: whirlwinding
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While U.N. talked, the Jews were carving Palestine with a sword. In a whirlwind week they seized Haifa, attacked Jaffa, won Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee and tried to cut the Arab supply road into Jerusalem. For the first time since the Romans leveled Jerusalem 1,800 years ago, a Jewish army ate Passover matzoth and bitter herbs around campfires in the field. Said Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion: "We stand on the eve of the Jewish State . . . heartened by the victories of our army . . . We have just begun to buckle on the sword...
...last week Reginald Turner, 49, a tired, timid, Veterans Administration employee of Winston-Salem, N.C., arrived in Manhattan with his wife. They were whisked from the train into a dizzy whirlwind of broadcasts, playgoing, wining & dining. Soon, the Turners and their four sons would embark on a South American cruise. By selling the television sets and diamond rings that had been dumped in their laps, they would pay off a lot of old bills...
Stassen himself continued his whirlwind campaign. He spent the morning of his 41 st birthday in Omaha, cut a cake given to him by dapper Fred Seaton, his Nebraska manager, then hurried home to listen to the returns. Then he was off to Bob Taft's home state. He was competing with Taft for 23 of Ohio's 53 delegates. If he could take a dozen from Ohio's "favorite son," it would be the end of Taft's chances...
...From Hamlet's famous advice to the players: ". . . Do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness...
...Washington, 67-year-old Senator Charles W. Tobey of New Hampshire announced his engagement to Mrs. Loretta C. Rabenhorst, fiftyish, who used to teach school but lately has clerked in the Senator's hotel. She was divorced two years ago; his wife died last August. "It was a whirlwind romance," said the bride-to-be, who described the balding chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee as "a very romantic person." Mrs. Rabenhorst, who dabbles in poetry, let the press have some...