Word: whirlwinding
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...limits of adolescence to anoint a 78-year-old as Asia's new comeback kid, there's little doubt that India's once fading leader has returned with a bang. Abroad, he's never been so well received: before clinching the landmark deal with China, Vajpayee made a whirlwind tour of Russia, Germany and France for bilateral talks on the sidelines of this summer's G-8 summit. For the third time in his six-year term, he's expending political capital to try to make peace with neighboring Pakistan. At home, Vajpayee's star has never been higher...
March 12, 2000, the day the Harvard Corporation named Summers the 27th president, was a busy one for the former treasury secretary. His whirlwind visit to Cambridge was spent in press conferences and introductory meetings with University administrators...
Neatly dressed in a buttoned shirt and khakis, with a brown belt matching his shoes, Watson keeps his academic planner close at hand. He reaches for it as he writes himself reminder notes and as he checks his daily commitments. The planner is a whirlwind of blue ink and yellow highlighter, as each academic and social engagement is written neatly in its proper slot...
...prize was beside the point, especially when ice on a wing or sleep could be fatal. Charles Lindbergh had flown the Spirit of St. Louis from California to New York, so he was used to the air-cooled Whirlwind engine, a splendid name for something attached to little more than a flying gasoline can. But the Atlantic was ocean, with no chance of a soft landing for 4,000 miles. He crossed it in 33 1/2 hours, the first to do it solo and nonstop. You'd think he'd brag. But Anne Morrow, who married him, recalled being captivated...
...true stars are the sumptuous-for-TV special effects and the Matrix-esque combat scenes. It's hard to get too earnest about any drama that includes the battle cry "Send men to summon worms!" but the message--"When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows"--does resonate. If only the whirlwind were usually so picturesque...