Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parade headed up the hill toward the capitol building, gusts of wind began whipping at the trees and tall weeds. A blast of icy rain swept across the demonstrators. Behind the marchers now, I looked up the line, across the 2000 bobbing heads. At the front were two huge flags, one of the United States and one of the United Nations, flapping in the wind. Higher up and to the right loomed the very white dome, topped by a Confederate flag and the modified Confederate flag that Alabama has chosen...
...blackened and rain began falling straight down, too heavy now to be shifted by the wind. White onlookers retreated from the curbs and onto nearly porches. Most chewed gum, spitting angrily every few minutes. A few tried to laugh, but ridicule didn't work in this weather and most chose silence...
...when they refused to leave a hallway outside Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's office, protesting segregation in K.U. fraternities and sororities. At the University of Washington in Seattle, students were loudly objecting to forced membership in the student association. At the University of Chicago, 200 students shivered in wind-driven snow on the main quadrangle to sing freedom songs, while coeds threatened a "sleep-out" to protest curfew hours...
Government and industry have been spending $2,000,000 a month for research on the SST, about 75% of it Government funds. Work on the drawing boards and in the wind tunnels has produced important design improvements in both the SST's airframe (for which Boeing and Lockheed are competing) and engines (General Electric v. Pratt & Whitney). The airframe makers have discovered that a relatively small reduction in airframe weight produces a disproportionately larger increase in payload; a 1% reduction, for example, would increase the payload by 10%. National Aeronautics and Space Administration research has given increased hope...
...this has convinced many previously hesitant airline officials that the plane is commercially practical, and has turned the congressional head wind against the SST into a tail wind. "My gloom has been dispelled," says Mike Monroney, chairman of the Senate Aviation Subcommittee, who less than two years ago was nearly ready to abandon the SST. "I am convinced that it is now time to get our SST off the drawing board." Says Boeing President William M. Allen: "Boeing would be prepared to implement a construction program tomorrow...