maelstrom
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“I’ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition’s flames before I give him up.’
From Washington Times • Feb. 6, 2018
"Nixon eschewed policy specifics, relying instead on what one reporter called 'oratory so evenhanded as to be meaningless,'" Michael Cohen writes in "American Maelstrom," his excellent history of the 1968 campaign.
From US News • Jul. 22, 2016
Legendary Pictures will produce Maelstrom with Upper Room Productions, the company Boyega set up earlier this year with agent Femi Oguns.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2016
Redefining the fear factor were the "Maelstrom Maestros": Jennifer Kent made a storybook monster and a depressed mother's rage come horrifyingly alive in "The Babadook."
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2014
“But, my dear Lady Maelstrom, I did not refer to your marriage with his lordship; I referred to your first love.”
From Japhet in Search of a Father by Marryat, Frederick
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