Word: whirlwinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them sweeping forward, saw the soldiers that cast their rifles down and blindly fled; barons I saw and bankers and archbishops driven before the whirlwind of the dead...
...year ago last week, flushed with an impressive string of whirlwind victories, Adolf Hitler trumpeted that "the year . . . will bring completion of the greatest victory in our history...
President Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, successor to ousted Arnulfo Arias, might well have used the expulsion order to sum up his five weeks of whirlwind reforms. A report to the people from Panama's new, pro-U.S. President last week would have shown...
...gestures and faces Kaye makes are enough to win him a niche in comic pantomime; they shrink to nothing compared with his whirlwind patter, his miraculous doubletalk. Even as he enacted Melody in Four F (written for him by his wife, Sylvia Fine, and Max Liebman), first-nighters suspected that they were seeing the birth of another such theater classic as Robert Benchley's Treasurer's Report, Joe Cook's Four Hawaiians...
Also on Hepburn's whirlwind schedule were a victory luncheon, a slapstick initiation to Manhattan's Circus Saints and Sinners.* Mitch breezed through both of these, then headed back home to Canada...