storm centre
Britishnoun
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the centre of a cyclonic storm, etc, where pressure is lowest
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the centre of any disturbance or trouble
Example Sentences
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Their cat-&-dog fight was joined by Dean Parkinson, Realtor-Trustee Albert Monroe Greenfield, perennial storm centre of Philadelphia business, banking and politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
The missionary movement became a storm centre when Dr. R. E. Diffendorfer, fatherly secretary of the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions, beamed down from the platform and addressed someone as "my boy."
From Time Magazine Archive
In his first years at Columbia, Boas was something of a storm centre.
From Time Magazine Archive
Textbooks have long been a storm centre in U. S. schools.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mind is always the storm centre of revolutions, the breeding ground of the most conflicting theories.
From Catholic Problems in Western Canada by Daly, George Thomas
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