Word: whirlwind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dollar that some Europeans -- not just the jet-set crowd, mind you -- are dropping in on New York City just for a weekend, blitzing the stores along Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and queuing up for Broadway shows. "We've been to Majorca, Crete and Yugoslavia," says one of the whirlwind invaders, Phil Stevens, 43, a carpet fitter from Britain. "But," he crows, "America is so cheap this year...
...going to be a whirlwind summer," Tolk said. He will be accompanying the Krokodiloes to Europe and Asia on their 1988 World Tour during June and July...
...Reagan Administration kept a close eye on the Costa Rica summit. In a whirlwind tour of Central America two weeks ago, Lieut. General Colin Powell, Reagan's National Security Adviser, irritated Nicaragua's neighbors by suggesting that they might suffer U.S. aid cutbacks if they abandoned the contras. Powell also urged them to condemn the Sandinistas' intransigence as a major obstacle to peace. The Administration's critics saw the mission as part of an overall plan to topple the Sandinistas by using the contras to wage a proxy war. The outcome of last week's summit, however, seemed...
...Crimson is a sad replica of what it once was. The Harvard whirlwind, which blew to three NCAA tournament appearances in the last three years...
...with glamour as well as with success, she was sometimes accused of manipulating men, sometimes of being manipulated by them. While admirers gushed over her rare blend of cleverness and charm, detractors focused only on her deployment of those strengths. The ambiguous effect of being accosted by the demure whirlwind was, said one newspaper, like "being dynamited by angel cake...