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Storm of Snarls. For the next 18 months, Cohn was at the center of one of the stormiest, shrillest periods of U.S. political history. Few who ever saw or heard him will forget the malevolent, heavy-lidded stare with which he pinioned witnesses; the adenoidal snarl as he closed in for the kill against a suspected Communist (the McCarthy Committee caught precious few, if any); the public obsequiousness to Senator Joe; the arrogant impatience toward Democratic committee members...
...stormiest sessions that Commons had seen in years, the Prime Minister returned to the attack by suggesting that the press and Opposition leaders had tried to "destroy private reputations from motives either of spite or gain." He concluded with a pious warning against "the spirit of Titus Oates* and Senator McCarthy...
...aged American-a feeling which will be difficult to explain to his son or daughter. A generation ago, Mencken's passing would have caused wholesale sorrow in certain speakeasies and newspaper city rooms. College students would have cut classes for a day to mourn the loss of the stormiest figure on the U.S. conversational scene. And in many a parish house and political forum, his death would have been considered...
...course this was never said at the luncheon. But it was implied in every remark during the meeting and each handshake at its conclusion. After all, what could be a better sign of unity than a football championship trophy given by Pennsylvania, once the stormiest eleven in the East, now just one of seven other amateur teams...
...George R. Stewart's 1941 novel, Storm, a young meteorologist named the low-pressure areas on his map after girls (the stormiest: Maria). The U.S. Weather Bureau has since tagged feminine names on hurricanes. This year, to avoid repeating the names of three memorable 1954 hurricanes (Carol, Edna and Hazel), the bureau decided on a new list of names...