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...There have been at least a dozen "Twitter Sundays" at Westwinds, but the 150 or so Twitterers of Westwind's 900 adult members are free to tweet at any time, at any service, whenever the spirit moves them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twittering in Church, with the Pastor's O.K. | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...Disney, Ovitz's expensively renovated offices stand empty. His Gulfstream III jet, which he sold to the company when he went to work there, is now happily occupied by ABC president Bob Iger. Apparently Ovitz has replaced it with a more modest Westwind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOB HUNTING WITH MIKE | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...that hung over the North Sea port of Bremerhaven last week and muttered: "Da kommen die Schweine [There come the swine]." Out of the mist lumbered two sharp-prowed, 6,500-ton icebreakers wearing huge Soviet flags on their sterns and the painted-over names"North-wind" and "Westwind" on their bows. Six years after the U.S. had lend-leased these $10,000,000 vessels to its wartime ally, the Russians handed them back, somewhat-the worse for wear and well dappled with rust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Icy Exchange | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...Portugall, along the river Tagus, & about Lisbon, certaine it is, that when the westwind blowes, the mares set up their tailes, and turne them full against it, and so conceive that genitall aire in steed of naturall seed: in such sort, as they become great withall, and quicken in their time, & bring forth foles as swift as the wind, but they live not above three yeres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ice Packs for Fathers | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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