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• n  a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)

• The controversial ad unwittingly pushed Mr Hughes into a legal maelstrom.
• The Senator's comments set off a maelstrom of criticism.
• Dwight Eisenhower has been heard to refer to his oval, pastel-green White House office as "the maelstrom.

• whirlpool
• vortex

News & Articles

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• Veto decision on universal background checks looms
  CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Gov. Brian Sandoval finds himself in the midst of a maelstrom of lobbying efforts swirling around his pending decision to sign or veto a bill requiring background checks on almost all gun transactions in Nevada.
  June 8, 2013 - KTNV Las Vegas
• Callers urge Sandoval to veto gun bill
  CARSON CITY (AP) — Gov. Brian Sandoval finds himself in the midst of a maelstrom of lobbying efforts swirling around his pending decision to sign or veto a bill requiring background checks on almost all gun transactions in Nevada.
  June 8, 2013 - Elko Daily Free Press

Quotes

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• Joseph Wilson in Washington Post
  In an interview with The Associated Press in Santa Fe, NM, Wilson says it will take a couple of years to sort through the remains of this recent period, in which the couple was "dropped into the political maelstrom."
• Patricia Dunn in VNUNet.com
  All I will say about the maelstrom is that I look forward eagerly, in the near future, to setting the record straight and going back to leading my life as discreetly as possible,HP chairwoman Patricia Dunn said during an acceptance speech as...
• Sonia Gandhi in The Statesman
  The Hague, June 10: Congress president Mrs Sonia Gandhi says India can "flourish only as a centrist democracy", even as she unveiled her journey "from the placid backwaters of a contented domestic life to the maelstrom of public life",...