Word: wind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fluttering of thousands of cardboard fans gave the effect of a wheatfield in a freakish wind, across which photographers' bulbs flashed like heat lightning (see PRESS). Then a grim-faced Negro loomed on the platform...
...hoped that TIME would ignore Lyndon Johnson's attention-seeking antics rather than dignify them by mention in its columns. I am comforted, however, by the realization that those Texans who read your columns are not exactly the type to be much impressed by the characteristics of a wind mill, whose activities depend on how the wind is blowing and which, although constantly in motion and usually screeching, never gets anywhere...
...brassy chattering of radios. The chaotic chorus of American voices was tense but happy; America was in its element. "Give me an ETA* on EC 84 . . . That's flour coming in on EC 72 . . . Roger . . . Ease her down . . . Where the hell has 85 gone? Oh yeah, overhead . . . Wind is now north northwest . . . The next stupid Charlie 47 has nothing on his manifest . . . Are you in charge of putting de-icer fluid in aircraft? Well, who the hell...
Across the road, the seven-story Daiwa department store began to crumble, swaying crazily. Ripping, cracking and crashing sounds came from it as sections within collapsed. Yellow dust rose over the city, and suddenly a strong, crazy wind blew up, first from one direction, then another. After a moment's silence came the small voices of human beings-shouts and cries which rose into a din throughout the city. At 5:27 a thin grey wisp of smoke crawled up behind the sagging department store. It grew larger. The fire had begun...
...crept steadily. People tossed bundles of bedding and clothes out of windows and doors. Men, women & children picked their way through the ruins of houses, keeping their faces turned always toward the fire, moving more quickly when they saw the nearness of its creeping advance and felt its hot wind...