Word: whirlwinding
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...Japan's economic welfare. But Allied policy had made it necessary to limit her foreign trade and shut off many of her vital materials. By last week Japan's currency had increased by almost 100 billion yen in a single year. Prices spiraled in an inflationary whirlwind that sucked living costs and wage demands high in its wake...
Tied up during the first two rounds by cagey Dowat, who tried to block effectively his opponent's battering right glove and to score hard with his own right, Rodgers burst into his usual whirlwind, if unorthodox, style in the beginning of the second cante...
...musty little office on Montgomery Street," said the official biography, "the Examiner's new owner seemed a whirlwind to the sleepy staff. He was everywhere: supervising stories and headlines, scribbling sketches for the cartoonists, writing editorials-breathing life into his foundling. . . . Papers, unlike Topsy, don't 'just grow.' What germinated and nurtured the Examiner shaped the whole course of American journalism...
...suddenly with young Hearst's 1895 invasion of New York. Old Hearst (in whose presence age is not discussed) was still living out the last chapter last week. In his 84th year (his birthday is April 29), the gaunt old man with haunted eyes is no longer the whirlwind. Neither is life at San Simeon, his 275,000-acre seat of empire, where Hearst once thought nothing of entertaining 80 house guests at a time...
...visit was a whirlwind. He spoke forcefully at Town Hall on "Whose Country Is This, Anyway?" He went to a party at the Wendell Willkie Memorial Building. He was interviewed by Tex McCrary & wife Jinx Falkenburg for their chatty-patty breakfast radio program. And for the climax he appeared on Information Please, where Willkie first budded into radio popularity. Mr. Arnall did not bud, he bloomed...