Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Banks fishing schooner and the opium clipper." Odd combination? Not for the offshore sailors to whom Garden has given long-keeled boats that are easy on the helm. Not on ocean passages, when a snug Garden rig teaches the enjoyment of what the designer calls "chasing off before the wind under boisterous conditions...
...biggest "risks" of the Philadelphia competition will be the match-ups in the preliminary heats. There is no seeding system for the nationals. Conceivably, the best six teams could wind up in the same preliminary heat. Since only the top three teams of the heats will advance to the finals, this set-up increases the pressure on a young team such as Radcliffe, which hasn't had much experience in such pressure-packed national rowing events...
Benny Goodman, L.H.D., musician. A tiny reed, a long black stick, a steady stream of manmade wind, and loads of God-given musical talent...
...racing history is, in fact, full of brilliant and expensive matings that have gone wrong. Champion mares bred to champion stallions have dropped foals that resembled neither parent in any respect except having four legs; the offspring have been pigeontoed, rough-kneed, cow-hocked, swaybacked, puny, soft-boned and wind-broken...
Though I tried to remain awake after reading such tales, I felt an overpowering anomalous drowsiness quite akin to being sated with green chartreuse. Once asleep, I found myself again in the cemetery. A minatory wind scuttled through the silent tombstones, and Charonian shadows leapt and grimaced with unspeakable frenzy. What was most unusual for a dream was that my nose was active, wrinkling in disgust at the fetor of rotten grass and the ichor of freshly overturned earth. This time the enshrouded figure spoke to me in hollow tones: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulu R'lyeh...