Word: windblown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leaping from his bed one night last January, Dahomey's President Hubert Maga excitedly telephoned military headquarters to report that his residence was being shelled. He soon went back to sleep. As it turned out, the tough, jolly, former schoolteacher had been aroused by the clatter of windblown coconuts pelting down on the mansion's tin roof...
...that think like men and men who dream themselves into beasts. Their environs are often menacing and unfailingly strange: "The shadow of a cloud was passing over the map, it came towards him like a fast-moving tide, heaving the hills as it came. It came at a fast windblown pace, eating up the fields, blotting out life like the edge of a dangerous sea moving in. The grave earth itself and the green things growing in collusion with it took on presence and, never moving, breathed a quiet hatred on to the mineral...
...warm but windblown fans up again in the seventh though, Larry Schoenfield tripled to left the inning. Don Weeden brought with a ground ball up the Fudge picked up the third the frame and moved to second thowing error. He tied the score at 3-3 when Lahti to left...
...English Critic John Ruskin "to describe the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects," and has been described as "a confusion of actual meteorological conditions with the weather in the soul." Any moviegoer or TV watcher-dimly aware that acts of love seem to occur in the presence of windblown oatfields or sexily curling surf, and that crises seldom take place without timpani and brass on the sound track-is the plaything of the pathetic fallacy...
...moment heartbroken. She made unconventionality chic, but could also, as in picketing for Sacco and Vanzetti, make protest resonant. There was something of a distaff Byron, about her, and on the stage of the '20s she was one kind of romantic lead as Scott Fitzgerald was another. Gallant, windblown, untidy, she was at once genuine and a little gimcrack, gifted and over-facile, bohemian and childishly boastful about how her candle burned at both ends...