Word: wind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...G.O.P. nomination-Michigan's Governor George Romney and former Vice President Richard Nixon-the meeting at Jackson Lake Lodge was at best a disappointment, at worst a storm signal. Romney's backers wanted the Governors to issue a pronouncement of support for their man, thereby puffing some wind into the sails of his be calmed campaign. No such gust was forthcoming, despite the earnest efforts of New York's Nelson Rockefeller and Rhode Island's John Chafee. Nixon, though undoubtedly relieved by the Governors' failure to rally behind Romney, also had reason to fret...
...deplored life under the Great Society as "a syncopated Watusi," in which "grey-haired mothers and grandmothers have shortened their skirts, exposed their bones, lit up their cigarettes, put on their war paint and started on a gin blitz for freedom with their bouffant bobs aflappin' in the wind...
...experiment with new propellants in 1951 in an effort to reduce the weight of cartridges. By 1961, Van Langenhoven had produced a derivative of nitrocellulose that could be ignited by a jet of hot air and that actually eliminated the need for a cartridge. Daisy President Cass Hough got wind of Van Langenhoven's experiments and flew over to Paris for a demonstration in an instrumented firing range near the Champs Elysées. Using a modified air rifle and pellets wadded with cottonlike propellant, the 6-ft. 3-in. Belgian squeezed off shots whose velocity was clocked...
...close enough to detect a Venusian magnetic field-if it exists-and the equivalent of the earth's Van Allen radiation belts. It is also equipped to measure the density and temperature of the Venusian atmosphere, investigate the wake left by Venus as it plows through the solar wind, and provide new data on the mass and precise location of the planet...
...even studied composition with Ernst Toch for a year. In 1953, he got the chance to do the score for the British comedy film Genevieve; his music won an Academy Award nomination, and led to writing and playing assignments for another 15 movies (recently King and Country, A High Wind in Jamaica...