Word: squalling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Squalling Grammarians. Traditional translations make much of Homer's epithets (Hera is "white-armed"; Odysseus generally "crafty"). Graves uses them sparingly, and sometimes ironically. The gods are treated with something less than respect; Zeus is a blowhard who hardly ever means what he says, and Hera, his wife, might be a garden-club president. When Zeus, who favors the Trojans, remarks that Hera protects the Greeks as if they were her own bastards, she replies pertly: "Revered Son of Cronus, what a thing to say!" Cartoonist Ronald Searle's illustrations wittily support Graves's wry treatment...
...topflight coaches and conductors, among them, Eduard van Reinum, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Markevitch. Although the festival, summer after summer, earned more than its share of critical huzzahs, it attracted only moderate crowds, had to be abandoned altogether last summer, when the festival tent was wrecked in a tearing summer squall during the American premiere of Murder in the Cathedral...
...John Dreier proposed a conference of the 21 foreign ministers to examine the "grave situation" in the Caribbean "on a broad front." Dreier recalled that in three months the OAS had met twice before to study threats to peace (in Panama and Nicaragua), and that dealing with each squall as it broke out was "futile." Understood but unsaid: that the trouble will continue as long as Castro keeps exporting revolution. And, Dreier warned, "Communists have attempted, and with some success, to infiltrate those revolutionary movements...
Even a U.S. effort to make a little progress toward peace ran into a squall. Over the course of months, the U.S. had patiently managed to get the Russians to agree to hold an East-West scientists' conference on nuclear-test detection. Time: this week. Place: Geneva. But last week, in a surprise note phrased with deliberate ambiguity, the Russians threatened to boycott the conference unless the U.S. agreed in advance that the meeting's aim is a nuclear-test...
...spanking line squall worked its way along the Florida Keys and its backlash sent a wet wind whistling into the Key Largo bedroom of Captain Tom Gifford. The stocky man in the double bed rolled over and mumbled: "Southeast wind-that means the tuna are at Cat Cay." More concerned with her own comfort, Mrs. Esther Gifford got out of bed and closed the window. "Damn that man," she grumbled. "He can't stop fishing even in his sleep...