Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rout. For the time being, the Nationalists were safe on Formosa. Last October, the Communists had launched the beginning of an invasion when they tried to storm the tiny island of Chin Men, just off the mainland from Amoy and 130 miles across the Strait of Formosa. The attack was a bloody failure. Nationalist troops commanded by trim, V.M.I.-trained General Sun Li-jen, who four months ago was placed in charge of Formosa's defense, routed a Communist assault force of 20,000, returned to Formosa with 7,000 prisoners. Most of the Reds have since been reorganized...
While a violent storm lashed British Columbia a fortnight ago, the 101-ton tug George McGregor was returning without tow from Bamberton to Victoria. Rounding Trial Island, near Victoria, she caught the full blast of the gale and the pull of the riptide. The combination was too much. She began to roll, then capsized and sank...
Boston's Ted Williams, one of baseball's most talented and temperamental stars, stirred up a storm last week without moving a muscle. All he did was to win (for the second time in his career) the American League's award as Most Valuable Player of the year. Boston was pleased, but Manhattan sportwriters erupted with such comments as "greatest farce ever perpetrated in sports in the guise of an official poll." They wanted to know why the award, voted by the Baseball Writers' Association, had not gone to somebody on the pennant-winning New York...
...something," one member wrote, "that nobody can take away from you--it is a sheet to windward. . . the anchor in a storm...
...fighting equipment would be trapped in demolished firehouses or hampered by rubble-choked streets. Even if it reached the fires, it would have no water to fight with: broken pipes would have reduced the pressure in the mains to near zero. The roaring flames, perhaps stirring up a "fire storm" as they did at a standard-bomb assault on Hamburg, would kill many people missed by the bomb itself...