Word: wind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then, it is cold and wet on Omaha. From the Channel, the north wind knifes in, and the beach is desolate except for the occasional lonely figure poking for shellfish. As the tide recedes, the ugly debris of war emerges: a black shape here, a jagged something there. The silence is awesome...
...Flight 452 from Paris circles New York International Airport, passengers look down to see a grid of runways six miles long floating in the open Atlantic 35 miles seaward of Sandy Hook. Wind speed at sea level is 40 m.p.h. and the swells are 6 ft. high, but inside a protective barrier of huge plastic bags the water surrounding the airport is calm. An immense pipe, dropping into the ocean from one end of the airport, is actually a pneumatic subway tube carrying passengers and freight to shore...
...through the window like Batman climbs Professor Orest Ranum, liberal, his academic robes billowing in the wind. We laugh at his appearance. He tells us that our action will precipitate a massive right-wing reaction in the faculty. He confides that the faculty had been nudging Kirk toward resignation, but now we've blown everything, the faculty will flock to the support of the President. We'll all be arrested, he says, and we'll all be expelled. He urges us to leave...
...gunfighter could hope for in the end. If he died on the gallows, the amateur hangmen were apt to miscalculate the drop; at least once, the force of the fall tore the victim's head off his body. If a corpse were not carefully guarded, it could wind up in the hands of the souvenir hunters, who had a nasty habit of flaying celebrities and preserving them for posterity. For example, Big Nose George Curry, who was done to death by a posse at Castle Gate, Utah, survived his execution in the form of a man-hide wallet...
...early September, a dry wind stirred the fire up again, but a few dozen men armed with hand tools can do little if the wind is one the opposing side. By the time they flew out, the 20,000-acre fire was almost as it was shortly after their arrival...