Word: maelstrom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...financial maelstrom hits big and small, the prosperous and the striving, without discrimination. Mighty IBM, a seemingly surefire Boston real estate project, and the gold futures market were all sent reeling in last week's crunch. Even the Wall Street Journal had a hard time putting it all together...
...Bengal and attracted much media attention. Were we threatening India? Were we seeking to defend East Pakistan? Had we lost our minds? It was in fact sober calculation. We had some 72 hours to bring the war to a conclusion before West Pakistan would be swept into the maelstrom. It would take India that long to shift its forces. We had to give the Soviets a warning. We had to be ready to back up the Chinese if they came in. Moving the task force into the Bay of Bengal created precisely the margin of uncertainty needed to force...
...Dallas and Harlingen, Texas (103°), to Fresno, Calif. (106°). Scheduled weeks ago, the tour was originally intended to tout such pet projects as a self-help volunteer fair and a community health center and to raise funds for her husband's reelection. But after the recent maelstrom, reported TIME Correspondent Johanna McGeary, the trip turned into a roving revival meeting intended to restore America's lapsed faith in Carter. "He's healthy, he's happy, he's confident," Rosalynn declared in one encounter after another. "He's a great President...
...audacious imagination and stinging perceptions ("She wore the livery of the highest fashion, but as one who dressed to inform rather than to attract") have not dated. Like Charles Ryder, the painter hero of Brideshead Revisited, Waugh focused "the frankly traditional battery of his elegance and erudition on the maelstrom of barbarism...
...know madmen are running our prison? within a jail, within a gaol, within a white free protestant maelstrom?," "he writes in this weaving ramble of eerie poetry, jazz and brash rock, tightly cut and slickly mixed...