Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some tough injuries, most notable the loss of top-scoring Karen Lindsey, to ligament strains, have already taken some wind out of the Cliffe sails, However co-captain Diana Finch said yesterday, "The team's enthusiasm is really strong and both our conditioning and skills are much better than last year...
Swept by waves up to 90 ft. high and wind gusts of hurricane velocity, Europe's North Sea is one of the world's most inhospitable places to look for oil and gas. Since drilling began there more than a decade ago, in a gamble by five nations to wrest black gold from Northern Europe's front yard, at least 21 lives have been lost in drownings and other mishaps. The North Sea has also been terribly unforgiving of mechanical mistakes. Supporting buoyancy tanks ruptured last year on a new gas-production platform, sending its legs crashing...
...often at a premium because these diehards use the curbs to elevate one side of the car so they can get underneath to do their work on the spot. And it's not easy to break into the select group who know the owners and always manage to get wind of the best deals and the latest tips on the wrecked 'Vette coming in tomorrow...
...SONG IS a tour-de-force, a masterpiece of phrasing, word play, and narrative. When the singer claims in the chorus that he's "Going to Acapulco/Gonna have some fun," we no more believe him than we believed the narrator of "Idiot Wind" on Blood on the Tracks when he insisted that he'd been "double-crossed now/For the very last time/And now I'm finally free!" In each case, Dylan enunciates a single word so as to give us exactly the opposite impression from what the word actually means. The singer's not gonna have...
...have a rough idea of The Unexpurgated Code. It might well be subtitled I'm Not O.K., You're Not O.K. A collection of bilious and often funny rules for living, the book qualifies as philosophy according to Donleavy's own definition: thoughts generated while confronting "wind, flood, volcanoes, earthquake, fire and lightning and the people who wouldn't be human if they weren...