Word: gusted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that it isn't. The performance of a supper-club songbird, in fact, is a coldly calculated exercise in group seduction. Every movement, every lighting change is as carefully mapped out as a market-research study and a subliminal soft-sell. There is, for instance, the old "arctic gust" routine, whereby the air conditioning in a club is turned up full blast a few minutes before showtime. The hapless audience, unaware of what hit it, naturally attributes the sudden lift in spirits to the personality of the performer. And when it comes time for the singer's exit...
...such speed, even a gust of wind can spell disaster-as two-time 500 Winner A. J. Foyt discovered last week when his Ford-powered Sheraton-Thompson Coyote was blown into the outer retaining wall at 162 m.p.h. The car was totally demolished, but Foyt was unhurt. Chuck Rodee was not so lucky. Rodee already had gunned his 500-h.p. rear-engine Offenhauser through one practice lap at 159.9 m.p.h.; now he was trying to top that. Drifting through the speedway's No. 1 turn, he was suddenly blinded by a bit of rag or paper that blew into...
Harvard's tennis team completes its home season this weekend, and the undefeated Neturen should blow Columbia and Navy right off the courts unless the Soldiers Field gust gets them first...
...Watts Happening." Anti-poverty officials have rushed through a $40 million crash allocation for Los Angeles County, half of it earmarked for Watts. A discount store blackened from Au gust's arson has been made over-and appropriately renamed "Watts Happening"-as a Government-financed coffeehouse for idle youth. A new $800,000 training center offers classes in grammar and Negro history for 200 students. But the overall program has been snarled by political rivalry and bureaucratic delays, and visible accomplishments so far are few. A new Head Start project for preschool youngsters got under way only last month...
...tomes of theory, plus detailed, fictitious depositions. After Yale Professor Fleming James lectured on "reasonable standard of care," they watched courtroom maestros examine "Thomas Covington III," an alert lawyer-actor who insisted that he had taken every precaution before burning grass on his property. A sudden wind gust just happened to whip up the flames that incinerated Neighbor Harvey Williams' $75,000 house, stables and horses...