Word: gusting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gust of primitive certitude blowing in from the right. The grudgingly delighted little rediscoveries of marriage and other products of anamnesis seem part of a new American talent for throwing open the door to the worthy and obvious, to a solid modest vista of common sense or even virtue, and treating it as a revelation that the cosmos has, until now, kept hidden. It is like discovering the wheel all over again...
...surprised when I stepped out into the fresh air, and saw the dawn drawing its curtains to reveal a beautiful gust of sunshine--sunshine that promised to increase as the day grew older...
...holiday; prayers for the hostages will sound and some rhetorical menace will be aimed at ayatullahs and other Iranians. The nation will brighten itself with parades and fireworks and concerts in the park, and cute local events like the porcupine race in Council, Idaho. Patriotism and nostalgia will gust among the picnickers. But on the whole, American morale may not be up to a convincingly exuberant Fourth. In the years since Viet Nam, the U.S. has accumulated a few sorrows that, if not worthy of Job, are at least chastening...
Hollywood, back then, worried less about "realism," perhaps realizing that to the unjaded, fantasy is just as "real" as car chases and gunship battles. As the opening credits roll, Mary Poppins sits on a cloud overlooking smoky London. Minutes later, a huge gust of wind blows away a host of prospective nannies applying for the position our heroine seeks. No one believes that it really blows hard enough to whisk away thirty mammarian matrons, or even that young women perch on English cloudbanks. But everyone believes in Mary Poppins, fantastic as she may seem, in a way which makes Luke...
...cleared for several minutes and then there was the mountain and the huge plume heading up into the sky." Photographer John Barr was riding a National Guard helicopter during an air search, when the craft suddenly banked. "I was right in the doorway," said Barr, "and a sudden gust blew my glasses off. Some day maybe they will be found down there on the rim of Mount St. Helens...