Word: wind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cicero's Wind. A year and a half after they were married, Hubert set out to fulfill the dream. Back at the University of Minnesota, Muriel got a job as a typist, Hubert got a part-time drugstore job, worked as a janitor to help pay their rent...
...down the New Deal ideology, lock, stock & pork-barrel. He became a big wheel in the political science department, a voluble, incessant talker-long on persuasiveness, a little short on logic. A professor once told him: "If God had given you as much brains as he has given you wind, you would be sure to be another Cicero...
...huddled over it with his wife and five-year-old daughter. For hours, as the storm howled, they coughed with smoke and fed their flame. But gradually the numbing cold sapped their strength. As they sat snuggled together with their arms around each other, the fire went out. The wind blew fine snow through every crack in the car, heaped it tightly around them. Thus blanketed, they died...
Several times in the history of Harvard there have been frontal and indirect attacks on freedom of thought, Buck noted. He cited as examples the restriction of anti-slavery discussion a century ago and more recently the attempt to prohibit Dunster House students from reading Norman Douglas' "South Wind...
...tournament golf for eleven weeks and he had some catching up to do. For an hour after he got to Riviera, he sprayed balls from the practice tee-first with the No. 9 iron, then the No. 8 and on up the ladder to the woods. He considered the wind and terrain even in practice, controlled every shot as if the tournament had begun. He has a horror of what he calls the Sunday golfer's gravest sin: "Just hitting the ball without thinking." Like cigar-chomping Walter J. Travis, golf's hero of half a century...