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Word: squalling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right under the most popular jet approach alley to J.F.K. Airport; the planes banshee by at 600 ft. so often that your 21-year-old daughter is driven autistic. Solution: float a war-surplus barrage balloon 1,500 ft. above the house and let the jets squall where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When the Ears Have Had It | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

...Ralph Nader would liken a pickup truck carrying a camper box around a tight turn to a circus elephant with one leg raised? Or another pickup in an S-turn to a round-bottomed dinghy during a squall? Who at the same time would warn that baby shampoos, their ads notwithstanding, will probably sting the eyes of some infants? Or declare that the most persistent cheating at supermarket meat counters is plain, old-fashioned short-weighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Catalogue of Caveats | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

Swigert is no stranger to in-flight emergencies. Once, while flying with the Air Force in Korea, he landed his plane in a driving squall, crashed into a road grader someone had left on the runway and walked away unscratched from the blaze that demolished his aircraft. Another time, as he was landing at Buckley Air Field near Denver, his brakes failed and his plane slammed into the base's arresting cables, but he escaped unhurt. Although he was a last-minute replacement on Apollo 13's star-crossed trip, Swigert showed great skill in improvising new emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Brave Men of Apollo | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

With The Dark Day, winter breaks up. Cold rain pelts the earth awake. A savage squall attacks the dike. The ships at their moorings, and also the ships that try to run for open sea, are wrecked. A seagull tosses on black-tipped wings against the leaden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Man for All Seasons: A Bruegel Calendar | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

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