Word: backlashed
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...across the lower portion of Luzon fortnight ago. Only ten or 15 people were killed and a few hundred houses razed. But like a man who rejoices at escaping the jaws of a crocodile only to be crushed by its flailing tail, Filipinos began to think differently when the backlash of the typhoon curled back and caught northern Luzon. The fury of the storm had abated but the heavens over the three northwestern provinces of the island suddenly liquefied. Through those provinces-Nueva Vizcaya, Isabela, Cagayan-flows the Rio Grande de Cagayan, biggest river of the Philippines, due north through...
...weeks after the murder the police dawdled over clues, questioned suspects, released them. Mayor James John Walker, fretted by his police department's impotence, fearing a political backlash, released Joseph A. Warren as Police Commissioner and installed Grover Aloysius Whalen, dapper manager of the John Wanamaker department store...