Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later we camp out on a ridge near a truck stop, where the drivers doze in their cabs. the wind forces us to lie flat, but there is a good view of headlights passing far below, and the March sky is crammed with stars. No one bothers...
Moore and Borden will wind up the relay and compete in the breaststroke events Moore will handle the duties in the 100-yard breath stroke while Borden will take of the 50-yard breastroke...
...others were working from the same pool of National Institute of Health and American Cancer Society grants, and he himself had sponsored the articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, America's equivalent of the Royal Society. Watson's New York friends, he admitted, had caught wind of "another Sloan-Kettering affair" (an April 1974 incident in which a cancer researcher named Summerlin at Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York was caught tampering with skin-graft data, and given a psychiatric leave) at Harvard...
...inimitable Dr. Watson didn't want that wind splattering any egg on his shirt. Watson insisted, and rightfully, that as the Academy member "sponsor" he only initiated the scientific-refereeing system and was figuratively, as well as literally, 300 miles away from the experiments and responsibility for their accuracy. But, curiously, Watson also seemed to know enough about the findings to be the first to declare them invalid and untrue, contradicting the testimony of an admittedly disgraced Rosenfeld that they were legitimate, and ignoring conventional scientific folk wisdom that failure to replicate results can as easily result from unknown changes...
January snow drifts down onto Long Nook beach. A piercing cold wind off the Atlantic knifes through even heavy overcoats and thick boots. Within minutes, the cold becomes unbearable. It is time to climb back up the sand dunes, which tower fifty feet above, to the Ford station wagon, now alone in the parking...