Word: williwaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcement of Frankie's appearance in the Hollywood Bowl had thrown Los Angeles high-brow music lovers into a self-righteous williwaw, Sinatra's fans at Pasadena, where he got off the train, into a squealing ecstasy (see cut). But Frankie's Los Angeles symphonic debut was like the calm after the storm...
...condemned as a "slacker" and "coward." Silently, Edsel shouldered his share of managing the company, knowing that the bitter storm was puffed up by Republican politicians. The deferment was justified. But this was Edsel's first experience in the storms which swirled about his father. The next williwaw came in 1919, when Henry Ford rowed bitterly with Ford stockholders, finally bought them out for $75,000,000 ($70,000,000 of which was borrowed from hated Wall Street) and installed Edsel as president. Henry Ford had learned that Edsel's great value was in soothing the rows...
...briskly from the Pacific, she did what her makers knew she could do. Major Stanley Umstead, the Air Corps's crack, cigar-chewing test pilot, climbed aboard; his crew of six trailed after him. Stanley Umstead started the four engines from left to right, kicking up a great williwaw of dust as he turned them up. He wheeled the Gargantuan bomber down the field, swung her into the wind, gave her the coal. Rolling hugely down the runway, she picked up her skirts slowly. But she was off, wobbling a bit-her feel was still strange...