Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Extraordinary Session. Meanwhile a curious vigil was being mounted in Albert's anteroom. In the Senate, Barry Goldwater and Minority Leader Hugh Scott had got wind of the extraordinary session, and came over to sit outside Albert's office as a visible gesture of moral support for Agnew. They had to leave before the Vice President came out, but Agnew later phoned his thanks to Scott. "It was generous of you and Barry," he said. "These are the kinds of things that don't go unnoticed...
Pittsburgh, another erratic team that has moved between last and first place this season, found its second wind after firing Manager Bill Virdon on Sept. 6 and replacing him with his predecessor, Danny Murtaugh. The club that will have survived the final, crucial weekend will go into the play-offs against Cincinnati with the kind of odds-defying momentum that swept the Mets to a surprise World Series victory...
Until then the browsers and shoppers in Copley Square can gaze on the craftsmanship of Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church, dnagle their feet in the fountain beside the church, or stroll through the new wind of the Boston Public Library...
Agnew's allies could perhaps be forgiven if, as John Ehrlichman described the White House treatment of Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray, they suspected the Vice President was being allowed to twist slowly, slowly in the wind...
...such steps are taken, the orgy of land speculation, and the inflation that it has brought, may wind up doing some good. For much too long, Americans have considered land to be a cheap resource that could be squandered. Today land is becoming too expensive to be treated in that manner. Now that Americans have to pay a stiff price for it, they may begin to treat land with the respect that it deserves...