Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That may be why, as one Atlantan observes, Britons Vivien Leigh and Leslie Howard were able to affect such convincing Southern accents for their roles in Gone With the Wind...
...throughout each Sol, or Martian day, of 24 hr. 37 min. Other instruments, meanwhile, will sample the contents of the Martian atmosphere, register the planet's temperatures, which range from a low of -200° during darkness to a high of +50° during the day, and record wind velocities, barometric pressures and humidity. A seismograph, placed aboard the Viking to detect Marsquakes and volcanic activity, was apparently not working at week's end, but scientists still had hopes that they could coax it into operation...
...coming weeks, visitors to Washington, D.C., who board a particular sightseeing bus may well be greeted by a tour hostess who will tell them about various points of interest-and then wind up by asking them to vote for her husband for Vice President of the U.S. Joan Mondale, 45, the Senator's quick-witted and sturdily self-possessed wife, works regularly for Washington Whirl-Around, a visitors' service operated by her friend Ellen Proxmire, wife of the Wisconsin Senator. "It's so much fun," says Mrs. Mondale. "They're all strangers I'm talking...
...uninitiated, air traffic communication in any language all sounds like Greek. Mainly, it is a hyperabbreviated shorthand of letters and numerals identifying sender and receiver and passing on data about wind conditions, altitudes and airport geography. Herewith a typical conversation, in English and French, as it might be overheard by an Air Canada pilot over Quebec City...
Ground Control: JVH, Quebec ground. Runway zero six, wind zero seven zero at five, time zero two five five, altimeter two nine nine four. Cleared to taxi...