Word: maelstrom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-Bolshevik propaganda, Lola was on the verge of being converted to Bolshevism when she had the chance of escaping to Poland on a forged German passport. She took it. Working as a telephone girl in Warsaw, she overheard the first news of Germany's collapse. In the maelstrom that followed the Armistice, her knowledge of languages-she spoke five-was her life-preserver...
...cheers. Everywhere can be heard political discussion, opinion, creed, code or cant. Statistics; proving either of two sides, are called into play by the clever. Rumor and scandal, easy to remember and difficult to refute, are used by the unscrupulous. The whole college is caught up in the maelstrom of political interest and factional discussion. Harvard has awakened to the fact that there is a presidential election on November third, and November third is only five days...
...Nanking. What looked to the Chinese masses like the long-awaited war with Japan was soon revealed to be just plain old-fashioned civil war, as Chiang's Press asserted that the ostensibly anti-Japanese Southerners had actually received Japanese guns, planes and cash. Last week a Chinese maelstrom of bribes, manifestoes, circular telegrams and tentative skirmishes reached its climax...
...done about it. Still there is something to be said on the side of the instructor who sends his grades to University Hall and foolishly imagines his year's work done until the avalanche of requests for grade changes deposits him turbulently in the midst of another maelstrom...
Today the G.O.P. Convention gets under way, and out of the ensuing maelstrom of conflicting ideas and personalities must emerge a leader and a program. Both must be shrewdly chosen and thereafter carefully cherished, if the party is to meet with success next November...