Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Ludwig, an off-duty cab driver, felt a pain in his groin. "The wind was knocked out of me," he said. "I saw something fall from my pants. I picked it up and asked a policeman what it was. He said, 'Hey, that's the bullet!' " It had ricocheted off the wall, passing behind Ford within a few feet and hitting Ludwig, who was not seriously hurt...
...manufacture of handguns would certainly cut down one source of supply, but the production of guns would hardly be eliminated. "It would create rather than solve a problem," says Lieut. James Eisel, an officer in Wayne State University's public safety department. "You would wind up with a vast black market supplied and run by organized crime...
...trouble-plagued, 798-mile pipeline project, the debilitating race against wind and weather was the most serious setback yet. The barges contained thousands of tons of supplies-part of a $540 million cargo of fuel, cranes, transformers, sections of tall prefabricated buildings-too heavy or expensive to be moved by truck. There is a slim chance that the fleet could still get through-about 20% according to weather experts. Barring that, the delay may well mean the first trickle of oil will not begin flowing south to the deep-water port of Valdez on schedule in the summer...
...Douglas MacArthur, John F. Kennedy, perhaps Jack Dempsey. These are some who were loved by the great majority of people, but also hated by many, Franklin D. Roosevelt for one. And in rare instances, there are men who reach the peak of adulation, only to fall from favor and wind up mistrusted and disliked; Charles A. Lindbergh is the premiere example. Finding the genuine hero, someone whom an entire nation idolized, cared for, and most importantly identified with, is a difficult task. Yet few could contest the claim that Joe DiMaggio belongs in this last category...
...wind, so Mary climb in... and the wailing nostalgia of "Backstreets," perhaps the album's best song, intersects universal lost childhood...