Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they thought it would soften Arab attitudes toward Israel. Jordan's King Hussein stayed home-although he sent a delegation -because he resented the participation of Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat. Concentrating on the three Ps of peace, petroleum and Palestine, the delegates, in the end, were able to wind up the meeting with the most impressive display of Arab unity in a quarter of a century. Among the major decisions...
...fuel will be scarce, and a substantial drying up of gasoline stocks can be expected by mid-February. Charles J. DiBona, the Deputy Director of Energy Policy, warns that the heavily industrialized Northeast, which uses a great deal more Arab oil than the rest of the country, could wind up trying to make do with only half of its normal supply of home heating oil and struggling through electric brownouts and blackouts...
...chat, share shampoos and in almost continuous motion, gather up their bottles and towels and now-limp suits. Under the hair dryer the conversation stops as the canned wind throws their hair to their eyes and roars past their ears. They grin at each other and at the matron, who is sweeping puddles of water at the drain...
Last, but hardly least, Teague brought "Gone With the Wind" to campus, and for only 75 cents. You paid more...
Hall cited inadequate control systems and questionable engineering as barriers to efficient use of energy at Harvard. "Often there is only one thermost at for the whole building, which eliminates consideration of the sunny side and the wind in heat allotment...