Word: whirlwind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...musty little office on Montgomery Street," said the official biography, "the Examiner's new owner seemed a whirlwind to the sleepy staff. He was everywhere: supervising stories and headlines, scribbling sketches for the cartoonists, writing editorials-breathing life into his foundling. . . . Papers, unlike Topsy, don't 'just grow.' What germinated and nurtured the Examiner shaped the whole course of American journalism...
...visit was a whirlwind. He spoke forcefully at Town Hall on "Whose Country Is This, Anyway?" He went to a party at the Wendell Willkie Memorial Building. He was interviewed by Tex McCrary & wife Jinx Falkenburg for their chatty-patty breakfast radio program. And for the climax he appeared on Information Please, where Willkie first budded into radio popularity. Mr. Arnall did not bud, he bloomed...
...three months every year Producer Trasks' high pressure line branches out into several smaller summer stock outfits dotted around the Massachusetts countryside. Then the pressure lets up and shattered nerves are given a chance to recuperate in preparation for the forthcoming whirlwind season at 40 Brattle Street...
...toward economic bankruptcy are sharper now than ever before. High prices for food fan the little man's desperation to a sharper pitch. The stink of governmental inefficiency and corruption is rising above normal. But the best guess is that Generalissimo Francisco Franco will probably not reap his whirlwind just yet. For he holds as tight as ever the only windbreaks that count-the army and the police...
...York City's Board of Estimate immediately agreed to do its part. A sub-committee of the U.N. made a whirlwind inspection of the site, turned in a glowing report. At week's end the General Assembly voted (46 to 7) to accept the Rockefeller gift. U.N. had found a home...