Word: gusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...barricade? Clearly not to keep out freshmen. Buried in the story's jumps is a sentence stating that "some upper-class students said that barricading the doors was actually an effort to reduce drafts." When the doors in question are opened, the accompanying gust of wind makes people at nearby tables shiver. In winter our superintendent posts a sign stating that the doors are not to be used. The recent cold snap was unusually early, and the sign...
...went outside for the first time to the grey, wet and devastating day. I was in shock at the destruction that had occurred: Trees were uprooted and scattered as if they were leaves blown about by an autumn gust of wind. Power lines and traffic lights were down everywhere, or hanging very low. Nothing would ever be the same...
...TONY ENCLAVE OF MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., reality is a $700,000 house perched on acres of shady lawn, and crime is a plot device in a P.D. James novel. Recently, though, the disappearance of one of Morris Township's most respected citizens has brought in a gust of the world outside. Sidney Reso, the 57-year-old president of Exxon International, vanished, his car left idling at the end of his driveway, as he headed for work on the morning of April 29, and no one has seen him since...
...Middle class families are walking a tightrope," he said, "teetering between economic success and failure, waiting for an unexpected gust to blow them...
Some London business analysts question whether his interest in the Daily News will outlast the first heady gust of publicity. Others think he is determined to succeed where his archrival, Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch, failed. Murdoch, who bested Maxwell in London to buy the Sun, News of the World and the august Times, burst onto the New York scene by acquiring the tabloid Post in 1976. During the next 12 years, Murdoch lost $150 million before being legally compelled to sell because he also owned a local TV station...