Word: wind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wings of the Wind. It was the end not only of that battle but of the war. The vote on the injunction showed the way the wind was blowing and Taft rode the wind to one of the most spectacular triumphs of his career. He offered an amendment to the Thomas bill which actually was a second serving of the Taft-Hartley Act, thinned down with 27 changes...
...million for a radar screen; $361 million for military wind tunnels and experiments in supersonic flight; $75 million for a guided missile range; $306 million in military pay raises...
...Angeles has its own brand of magnificence. It is amazingly clean, awesomely spacious. It has ramshackle houses, but in comparison with other big cities, no slums. Its great boulevards wind through miles of windblown trees, bright flowers and sweeping, emerald-green lawns. It is a Western town, with the memory of Deadwood and Virginia City in its bones; in its love of display, its detachment from the past and its obsession with its own destiny, it is simply striking the attitude of the gold seeker and the trail blazer...
...going down the road to statism," proclaimed Jimmy as Washington and Lee University handed him an honorary doctor of laws degree. "Where we will wind up no one can tell. But if some of the new programs seriously proposed should be adopted, there is danger that the individual-whether farmer, worker, manufacturer, lawyer, or doctor-will soon be an economic slave pulling an oar in the galley of the state...
...growth of ordinary cells. It multiplies wildly, growing into a useless mass of disorderly tissue. The tumor pushes among the normal cells, presses on nerves, thrusts organs aside or invades them. Often the gangster cells get into the blood and spread around the body like seeds carried by the wind. Where they lodge they grow into "metastases"-secondary tumors as lawless as the first...