Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Camping equipment is one of the few, if not the only good thing that ever came out of America's armed forces. Although the stuff is getting scarce, an easy way to save money is to go army surplus. The finest pants available are still those army wind pants developed in some Army hinterland testing center. If you plan to hit the frequently wet northeast slopes, then the best bet for boots, is still the army mouse boot--Korean vintage--if you can still find a pair. Some itchy wool thermal underwear and a couple of wool sweaters still...
...NATION'S prosperous scent another Depression in the wind, people like Whitney, the golden boys of the financial world who've always had it easy, are beginning, again, to jump from high windows along Wall Street, and when they do, they take pension funds and life savings with them. If their demise meant the demise of the system in which they've failed, that would be one thing--and might be applauded as leading to genuine change. But even after the fall of a capstone as central, as public, as Whitney, the system managed to regroup and restore its shattered...
...inflated as the virtuoso trumpeter. Preparing for a good high staccato blast or a long, breath-defying legato lament, the trumpeter can puff himself up so much that the air pressure inside him may exceed that of an average automobile tire (24 lbs. per sq. in.). No other wind player can make that statement. No other musician can literally become so dizzy so easily. No other has such a constant fight between muscular tension and interpretive relaxation and grace...
...outline of Sigmund Romberg's Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise. One by one, cued only by instinct, his colleagues joined him: the genial Heath, eyes closed, his fingertips lightly brushing the strings, while Kay, the pulsemaker, fabricated a succinct beat ornamented by miniature percussive effects-rippling wind chimes. Jackson's keyboard work at the vibes, reminiscent of Art Tatum's quicksilver piano, provided the melodic keystone...
...about it. I do have a short fuse. But I can control it. It's not a problem when I concentrate on it -and I'm going to concentrate." He still believes that "nobody has given this President the benefit of the doubt." He adds: "If we wind up with the feeling on the part of the press that I'm just another Ziegler, it's not good for the President, it's not good for the press. I desperately want this thing to work...