Word: wind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ancients, wind and sun, sea and forest grove seemed to be informed by inscrutable spirits to whom, in awe and propitiation, they gave human personality and shape. To modern man, the mechanized gadgets that his own brain has spawned also seem to have cantankerous lives of their own. What adult American has not swatted a flickering TV set? Or made an uneasy joke about the day when the computer tries to take over...
Harvard's advantage did not stand up for long, however. It disappeared in a sudden explosion of the Eli offense in the second period, when Yale was aided by the wind...
Both football squads ran well and passed poorly on the hard, wind-swept field. Harvard rushed for 180 yards and completed one pass for 16. Yale gained 124 yards on the ground and registered three completions...
...late-show watchers remember Spencer Tracy's bravura portrayal of Clarence Darrow and Fredric March's performance as William Jennings Bryan in the movie Inherit the Wind, a reenactment of the 1925 Scopes "monkey trial." That classic courtroom confrontation seemed to come from another era, a benighted past when a 24-year-old substitute biology teacher named John T. Scopes was actually indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in a Tennessee schoolroom. But that era was not so distant after...
...unable to establish a mental understanding or even an emotional understanding of the wind. Because it keeps coming stronger and stronger, it lifts your lighter limbs like your legs, and it keeps changing directions because you are rotating in a movement you are still unaware of. The terrific wind separates you completely from your hands and feet. You experience the shoulders and thighs nearest you; but the outer limbs are lost to the environment...