Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phone to call Penny's go-between Jilly. There weren't many other places. A Spin-a-Pin six-lane bowling center, a few 7-11s, and the remnants of a destroyed drive-in movie screen torn up by a tornado while Gone With the Wind was playing, said Jilly. It's that kind of town. Sixteen churches, a tiny one-room newspaper and a loan office. The head shark, as fate would have it, is Penny's daddy. Everyone in the county owed him money at one time or another. So whether or not he was well liked...
Gone With the Wind, Friday and Saturday, April...
...numbing wind swept in off the Charles across the MIT baseball diamond and buffeted against the big, red brick Heinz warehouse across the street, the Engineers appeared to be devising 57 ways to lose yesterday's ball game to Harvard...
...make electricity and run cars. Now, as a result of crisis and quintupled oil prices, federal funding for energy research and development is surging. The money is going toward getting energy from the sun, from hot rocks and steam reservoirs deep beneath the earth's surface, from the wind, from coal, even from the millions of tons of garbage discarded daily...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Lewis Research Center near Cleveland, a 5-kw. commercial windmill with two 62.5-ft. blades (built by Lockheed) is nearing completion. The biggest wind turbine in 30 years, it will be part of an experimental 100-kw. system-one of three planned for several U.S. climatic areas to feed into local power grids. ERDA is on the verge of starting at least 30 research projects, from measuring wind movement in various U.S. regions to seeing how wind can be used to dry crops. In all, ERDA would like to spend $11.5 million...