Word: storms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Next day the only newspaper published in Istanbul or Ankara was Menderes' Democratic Party organ, Zajer. Its caption (over a photo snapped just before the storm struck in the square): TREMENDOUS OVATION GIVEN OUR PRIME MINISTER SHOWS AFFECTION OF PEOPLE. But Foreign Minister Fatin Zorlu acknowledged that some 50 demonstrators had been arrested after the "ovation," added grimly: "The parliamentary inquiry will take care of them...
Kennedy had a New Deal heirloom that Humphrey could not match. Campaigning hard for him through desolate coal fields of southern West Virginia was New York's Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., and every time he mentioned "my father" he raised a storm of applause.Roosevelt even addressed his listeners as "my friends," and said of Kennedy: "He hates war." (In a below-the-belt attack on Humphrey's in voluntary 4-F status in World War II, Roosevelt praised Kennedy's war heroism, said that Humphrey "is a good Democrat, but I don't know where...
...Germany. In 1858 he decided to head for St. Louis to join General Frederick Landers' mapping expedition to the Pacific. The paintings he did along the way made him famous. His big (6 ft. by 10 ft.) Landers' Peak, Rocky Mountains was sold for $25.000; his Storm in the Rocky Mountains (12 ft. by 7 ft.) brought $35,000. British critics raved about him ("as devoted a lover of the grandest scenes in nature as any painter who ever lived''). The French gave him the Legion of Honor, and the Austrians bestowed on him their Order...
...Melbourne Herald headlined its story MENZIES PORTRAIT-A STORM. The Sydney Sunday Telegraph reprinted the entire cover story, and the Sydney Daily Telegraph editorialized: "That American TIME magazine has chosen Mr. Menzies for its cover portrait is a tribute to a great Australian statesman and a boost for Australia...
...engineers by calling for strings divided in equal groups on either side of the conductor. The resulting spread of sound is interesting, but less so than Stokowski's fine performance. Even with a pickup orchestra, his Bartok glows with tonal colors as weird and arresting as an electrical storm, and his vigorous reading of Martin has a fine shimmer and glow...