Word: wind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Worth the Fare? After an overnight stop and a political breakfast rally in Anchorage, Alaska, the President returned to Washington 17 days and seven nations after he had left. A smallish claque of Government workers was on hand and a huge WELL DONE, MR. PRESIDENT banner rippled in the wind-lashed rain at Dulles International Airport. The President noted wryly: "We had perfect weather until we landed in the U.S. But that shows what happens in an election year...
Most of the desert air is pushed through the mountain passes (one of which, the Santa Ana canyon, gave the wind its name), where it picks up speed before roaring out into the Los Angeles basin at velocities as high as 100 m.p.h. The remainder flows over the mountains and down the western slopes. Descending toward low-lying coastal areas, the air is compressed and heated-five degrees for every 1,000 ft. of descent. As a result, the Santa Anas often bring 100° temperatures with them-though temperatures in the Great Basin where they started may have been...
...cafeteria. Facing the building he looked out at Crown Heights proper, an old neighborhood of Italians and orthodox Jews. Behind him was Bedford-Stuyvesant, the most salvageable of the city's Negro slums. Looking toward the slum he could see sheets of paper propelled higgly-piggly by the cold wind until the trash caught in one of the low, rusted fences in front of the brick houses. The hard neon light from the cluster of stores on the cafeteria side seemed to draw people hurrying home for the week...
...design, at the movement itself. It seems to come from elsewhere. The pliers only made the arrival possible." In recent years, Rickey's pliers - along with welding torch and sheet-metal cutters - have produced whole families of curiously moving metal sculptures that gambol and gimbal in the wind, slicing segments of time like pendulums or spinning until the sunlight splinters into a spectral blur (see color...
...Peter Finch), she tries during a trip through Spain to stir the embers of eroticism by packing him off to bed with her best friend (Romy Schneider). One memorable night, as a storm rages outside, she sees Romy and Peter on a balcony in an alfresco embrace, heedless of wind, rain and lightning. Meanwhile, a murderer fleeing a crime of passion appears on an adjacent roof, and Melina decides to help him. Why? To that question there is a multiple-choice answer: 1) she is desperate for excitement, 2) she is romantic and immature, 3) she is a fanatic sexistentialist...