Word: buffetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ignition, nothing that TV says or does can re-create the waves of sound that actually buffet the ears, chest and gut of the spectator. The slowness of lift-off contrasts incredibly with the acceleration into flight. The head goes back, hands are raised to block out the sun, tears of relief and perhaps pride fill the eye. The sense of brute power boring an escape hole through the atmosphere is heightened by a sudden realization that one is being left behind. The earth itself seems to be dropping away as fast as the wingless rocket is accomplishing the completely...
This week in Washington, hundreds of friends will attend a memorial Mass for Bobby. His widow Ethel and her eleven children will be hosts at a buffet for the Senator's old friends at the Hickory Hill estate. The District of Columbia stadium will be renamed for Robert F. Kennedy, as will ski slopes, chapels, high schools and bridges around the U.S. A game preserve in far away Tanzania will also be dedicated in his name. Congress has authorized $750,000 to build an access road and other improvements at his Arlington grave site. In the last year, five...
...spots. Suddenly flaring into extreme brilliance, a region hundreds of millions of square miles in area can erupt, shooting a stream of electromagnetic radiation and particles into space. Within 15 minutes after the appearance of some flares, bursts of electromagnetic radiation and some high-energy particles begin to buffet the earth and moon. These are the vanguard of the main and most dangerous body of particles-mostly protons-that arrive about ten hours later...
...tree-a 20-ft. shadblow-in every phase of foliation for a color movie he is making. All that remains is to record his "friend" in a storm. "I freely admit that I'm in love with that little tree," he said. "I want the storm to buffet her, but I hope she doesn't get hurt. If anybody chopped her down, I think I'd kill him." And he added: "My life is fulfilled. I can understand with greater intimacy than ever the relationship that binds all growing things...
This prodigious output has long since made the author a millionaire. Simenon's house at Epalinges, a small Swiss village near Lausanne, has 26 rooms, 21 telephones, portraits of its owner by Buffet, Vlaminck and Cocteau. But the house is more important as a mark of contentment for the Liège-born Simenon, who shares it with Second Wife Denise, their three children and a livery of servants. Previously, his restlessness pushed him for varying periods into 30 residences around the world as well as into a sloop on which he cruised through Europe. Simenon even...