Word: wind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambassador Lewis Douglas was back in London after the dollar talks, minus the patch he has worn over his left eye since it was snagged by a wind-blown salmon hook last April. He paused on the front stoop of the U.S. embassy in Grosvenor Square to exchange grave greetings with an old family retainer named Reggie...
...tale: "I built a little mud wall around the ledge to protect me from the wind. I read aloud page after page of [G. K.] Chesterton's The Thing, tearing out each page as I finished it and stuffed it inside my jacket to keep me warm . . . The third day, I spent solving mathematical problems in my head, then I saw the feet of a rescuer being lowered to me from above...
...meeting, inaugurated by recommendation of the 'Cliffe Cedar Hill policy Conference, will wind up with a question period. A similar session for the whole College is scheduled next Tuesday...
...whole thing started," says Père Belanger, "on the 6th of February, 1948," shortly after two daughters had sickened and died. "A big wind ran through the house, and the children saw their sisters clothed like little saints and accompanied by the Holy Virgin." Soon, Bélanger claims, each child acquired equal power and began to perform "many cures...
Radioactive Dust. The instruments that recorded the Russian explosion were many and varied. Atom Bombs that explode in the air form mushroom clouds of intensely radioactive dust that billow high in the atmosphere. The dust particles, so small that they fall very slowly, are carried long distances by the wind. The radioactivity of the test explosion at Alamogordo in July 1945 was detected over Maryland, 1,425 miles away...