Word: williwaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest oversnow airborne maneuver in Army history, the climax of "Exercise Snowdrop," latest in the Army's continuing research into the best way of fighting an Arctic war (others: Task Forces Frigid, Frost, Williwaw in Alaska, Wisconsin and the Aleutians). The jump was made by 500 men of the 505th Airborne Battalion Combat Team, a unit of the Army's famed 82nd Airborne Division...
...Wild Williwaw. But the era of good feeling ended almost at once in the howl of Alaska's biggest, longest political storm. After World War I, the Territory had suffered a slow decline. Its population had dwindled, and did not begin to rise again until the 1930s. Its lopsided economy was tied almost completely to fish and gold-a salmon industry owned in Seattle and a gold industry owned in the East. Alaska had been administered chiefly from dusty Washington pigeonholes by bureaucrats who had never seen a skate of halibut gear or a dredge's tailing pile...
...flurry over whether London's statue to F.D.R. should show him sitting or standing (TIME, Nov. 25) was building into a williwaw. In typical British fashion, most of the wind was blowing up & down the letters-to-the-editor columns in short, violent gusts...
...matter of prestige. Lean, hardheaded Finance Minister René Pleven insisted that a small, tight, mechanized force was all that was necessary: in tomorrow's atomic war a massive array of manpower would be silly. Last week the Cabinet met in Paris, listened for five hours to the williwaw of conflicting opinions. The man who does France's bookkeeping finally...
Wells's fans were ravished by this williwaw of invective. Said British Reviewer Michael Foot: "Wells has produced a book rich with the flavor of Paris in the heyday of the terror. It might even have been written by the immortal Marat, whom Wells himself, in his Outline of History, has rescued from the clutches of defamation. From cover to cover it is angry, explosive and morally indignant. It revives all that is best in the great tradition of English invective." Others were reminded of a line from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land: "Voices singing...