Word: storms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Earth, worn by the ages, wracked by rain and storm, exhausted yet ever ready to produce what life must have...
...storm that followed, a special judicial commission delivered a secret report that is said to clear Lavon. Newspapers have managed to hint that Lavon's relations with young Army Chief Moshe Dayan and Shimon Peres, the whip-smart young director-general of the Defense Ministry, were terrible at the time. But Peres. 37, now B-G's Deputy Defense Minister, denies that he had any part in framing Lavon, and Dayan, 45, now Agriculture Minister and B-G's present favorite for the succession, has said nothing...
...approximate intellectual consistency of toothpaste." But Kennedy's language is "elevated, even literary, for this man is something of an artist with words." Last week Joe Alsop, who likes to set himself up as the most doorbell-ringing of all the political pollster-reporters, could see only one storm cloud on the Kennedy horizon-the religion issue...
...storm smashed telephone and telegraph lines so thoroughly that it was five days before the news reached Dacca, less than 100 miles away. Even so, the first government official to visit the area reported "four boys washed away," and called other casualty figures "grossly exaggerated." But last week, eleven days after the storm struck, the estimate was that the total would be "unimaginably higher'' than the 5,000 dead reported on Ramgati and Hatia alone. Getting out of his Jeep to inspect some still-standing huts in the stricken region, East Pakistan Governor Lieut. General Azam Khan observed...
...announcement had the desired effect: at week's end gold prices fell back-to $37.22 in London-and steadied. But since gold prices still stood at a level at which Central banks could buy from the U.S. and sell elsewhere at a profit, most bankers expected that the storm had not yet blown over...