Word: wind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...monsoon ends in early April. Pilots must feel their way in for landings with a ceiling of less than 100 ft.-even though Air Force standards call for a minimum of 300 ft. In addition to the mist, they must make their letdown through turbulent air and a tail wind, cope with a sudden updraft before touchdown and land on a runway that tilts crazily uphill...
After the Johnson supporters' first rush for the exit, however, 19 other members who voted against the McCarthy endorsement announced that they will remain in the A.D.A. to try to prevent the organization's collapse. After all, the organization may wind up backing Johnson against the Republican candidate after the party conventions this summer...
...exposure came only after an inquisitive gambling-syndicate man from New York hired a private detective to learn how the young big spender was bankrolling his betting. Reporter Dick Carlson of San Francisco's KGO-TV got wind of the quiz, did some probing on his own account, and became convinced it was a matter for the state Attorney General's office. Within hours after examining the agency's books, the hawkeyes latched onto the ABAG leakage, but by then it was already too late. Truax had fled, and ABAG, which had held such glowing promise...
...Jersey, we're sailing south to Norfolk to load on for Italy, everything is washed away by the clean sea . . . The stars are big, they rock side by side like Galileo drunk and Kepler stoned and Copernicus thinking, like Vasco da Gama in his bunk in thought, the wind, the cleanness, the dark, the quiet blue light in the bridge where hand holds wheel and course is set. The sleeping seamen below...
...Design School's drive now stands at $9.3 million according to William A. Doebele, Associate Dean for Development of the Graduate School of Design. Doebele said yesterday that he hopes to wind up the drive by the end of June...