Word: whirlwinding
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...Tokyo when the made-in-U.S. whirlwind struck. Most of the regimented millions in Japanese war factories were already at their benches or assembly lines. But the Hellcats, Hell-divers and Avengers (perhaps also Corsairs and Dauntlesses) had other targets this day: the great complex of airfields around the capital, such as the Kasumigaura naval air base (used by both land and sea planes), 50 miles north of the city, and the Tachikawa army air base, 15 miles...
...creating good will, Stettinius had been successful, too, in his whirlwind London trip in April, where he spent Easter with Churchill, took a fine Virginia ham to the Prime Minister's wife, conferred with General Eisenhower, had a fireside chat with the King, and shook hands with every top diplomat in sight. (In England he was even more tweedy than the British.) Home again, he worked long on an elaborate chart "reorganizing" the State Department. The only major changes proved to be the disgruntled departures of such able men as Dr. Herbert Feis and Laurence Duggan, but this...
...West Indies, waves of heated air molecules begin to rise from the warm sea. As cooler molecules rush in from the sides to take their place, and the rising air, saturated with ocean vapor, cools off in the upper atmosphere, the air currents move faster & faster. Soon the growing whirlwind, given a counterclockwise spiraling motion by the earth's rotation (it is clockwise in the Southern hemisphere), resembles a vast phonograph record, with a hollow core, the vortex or "eye" of the storm, through which the sun may shine on the turbulent sea below...
...confused with the tornado, a whirlwind shaped like an inverted cone, which follows a very narrow course, usually spends itself within a few miles...
...recalls that day when a woman upset the staid order of affairs and sent the undergraduates into an uproar. There have been few more boisterous hours in Harvard's history than those between noon and 3 o'clock of November 14, 1902, when Carrie Nation made a whirlwind campaign to woo the student body from rum and nicotine. The Kansas hatchet swinger, who personally broke enough whiskey bottles (full) to arouse envy in the heart of the most rabid prohibition agent, stepped off the electric car that carried her from Boston to Cambridge and went straight to those claustral walls...