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Word: westerlies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Underlying Waves. No glamour boy on the podium, Davis guided the Met orchestra through Britten's surging score with the firm and unerring hand of a ship's captain riding out a sou'wester. His precise baton gave full play to the music's quick, dramatic climaxes, while deftly sustaining the rhythms of wind and waves. His beat was decisive, his attack well balanced and logical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fire in the Belly | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...Wester, a junior from North House, kept East from making a clean sweep by swimming the 20-yard butter-fly in 11 seconds flat, a new pool record. Halmed the other record when senior Jane Mansfield clocked a 20.4-second time for the 40-yard breaststroke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Edged By M.I.T.; East Wins Swimming Title | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

Down the Neck. As for hats, the situation is no better. Scarves are perky as can be, but as waterproof as sponges. Hoods, helmets, bonnets and the currently chic sou'wester hats are serviceable, but leave the hair underneath a disaster area. Alternative? The nowstandard plastic rain hood, which folds away to nothing and can be carted around in the smallest purse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Singing? Hardly | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

...long run this country must realize that it cannot maintain pro-Wester governments in Southeast Asia by force of arms, that the best hope for the United States is a genuine neutralism that balances, if it does not reconcile, the conflicting interests of the great powers. A frank recognition of our failure in South Vietnam is the first step toward salvaging what we can of an independent Southeast Asia

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cutting Our Losses | 2/24/1964 | See Source »

Wednesday, January 15 CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* The major scientific breakthroughs since 1948 discussed by Astronomer Gart Wester-hout, Maser Inventor Charles H. Townes, Geologist Bruce Heezen, Nobel-Prizewinning Physicist Chen Ning Yang, Nobel-Prizewinning Biochemist Severe Ochoa and Scientific American Publisher Gerard Piel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 17, 1964 | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

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