Word: storming
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Lord's quest to learn how a whole generation could have "thought it glorious to humiliate their elders . . . to report on family and friends; to storm strangers' homes; to hurt fellow Chinese without consideration of sex or age; to maim and kill" netted her two interviews with former members of the Red Guard. One of them, a historian, recounted how he bludgeoned his favorite teacher. As other students began hurling insults and then blows at the victim, the mild-mannered historian "imagined more and more eyes looking at me, demanding answers." Realizing that he would be stripped of his prized...
Flying at 30,000 ft. over the frozen flatlands of Ohio, where a winter storm was barreling eastward, the Gulfstream jet shuddered violently. The big man in the comfortable leather seat looked sharply toward the cockpit, as if to ask "What the hell is going on in there?" He has been wearing that expression quite a bit lately, for the man is Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, 65, and he has been weathering a storm of his own for the past few months. Even the elegant corporate jet on which he flew last week was symbolic of the crisis. A week...
...same applies to the liberal use of quotation marks, which run through the books like tiny underscoring arrows. The Message to the Planet is overly fond of this intrusive nudging. Here is the latest Murdoch female masochist in full lament: "Franca contained in her breast a storm of anguish and violence so terrible that she had at times, when she was alone and longing to 'break down,' to clutch her breast." Terrible, for that matter, is a favorite word. So are appalling, awful, horrible, dreadful and all forms of the word dark. "These dreadful ideas, horrors from the past...
...automatic-rifle fire crackles a few hundred yards away. At 3:30 a.m. the quiet is broken as six heavy tanks storm past the hotel...
Igniting a fire storm is precisely what Moynihan had in mind last December when he suggested rolling back the most recent hike in Social Security taxes. On Jan. 1 the rate climbed to 7.65% on the first $51,300 of a worker's income, a sum that employers must match. Moynihan would lower it to 7.51% this year...