Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city after city, house managers are proudly rounding up the names of fans who claim that they have seen the movie as many as 30 times. If it keeps up the pace, Sound is certain to break the all-time record now held by Gone With the Wind, which has earned more than $40 million in the U.S. in 25 years...
...York Herald Tribune reporter in the waning days of World War II. She made an even bigger reputation in the Korean War as the only woman correspondent on the scene. At first, the U.S. Army wanted no women reporters at all and ordered her out of the country. Getting wind of this, a Soviet magazine gleefully ran a cartoon showing her being ejected from Korea at bayonet point. The caption: "MacArthur's first victory." But it was the general who capitulated. Maggie confronted him in Tokyo and complained: "I am not in Korea as a woman...
Died. Clark Blanchard Millikan, 62, California Institute of Technology aeronautics professor, a leading pioneer in wind-tunnel research and recipient, with his late father, Caltech Head Dr. Robert A. Millikan, of a 1949 Presidential Medal for Merit for their contribution to the development of the jet-assisted take-off rocket (1941) and the U.S.'s first successful high-altitude sounding rocket (the 1945 WAC Corporal); of congestive heart failure, in Pasadena, Calif...
...because very few of the junior faculty members ever wind up with good positions on the Harvard faculty, there is a rapid turnover of ambitious young men that quickly erodes any attempt at a sustained reform movement. "At Harvard you don't go that far that fast, and you don't get the feeling that it's your department," said one History tutor. "You're going to leave--not get fired, you're going to want to leave...
...granite and concrete court and under the elevated walkways is not wasted. In places, the platform level serves as the roof covering for campus classrooms; in others, it shelters ground-level paths from rain, and adjacent outdoor parks, cobblestoned and furnished with old-fashioned fold-up lawn chairs, from wind. There, says Architect Netsch, students can bask and study in balmy weather, as if "loafing in Paris' Luxembourg Gardens...