Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jake, "I want her on that jury. She knows there's no such thing as rape." But Jake Ehrlich admits that jury picking is basically a risky proposition. "It's like picking a wife," he says. "You don't know where you're going to wind up." Such uncertainty has convinced many lawyers that preconceived theories are almost worthless. "Generally speaking," says Harold R. Medina, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, "it's impossible to learn much about a man by questioning him. Prospective jurors lie like hell...
...sports shirt worn outside the trousers, but otherwise excited no sartorial emulation. Jack Kennedy did. "Suddenly everybody wanted to look like he came from Harvard, or like he thought everyone looked at Harvard," says Grossman. And it is hoped that the floundering hat industry, for which Kennedy's wind-blown look did nothing, will revive under the ten-gallon-Texan inspiration of President Johnson. Fortnight ago Alex Rose, president of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union, paid a call at the White House and announced President Johnson's blessing for an L.B.J. hat-a lightweight...
...itching, nodding, scratching. The simple jazz fans in the audience sit shivering in the cold fog of hostility the players blow down from the stand. A dig-we-must panic inhibits them from displaying any enthusiasm? which only further convinces the players that their music is lost on the wind...
...adopts the role of public penitent and stands at the altar of his church glorifying the twelve martyrs, whom, he says, he has failed. "I let myself be paralyzed by the withering breath of despair!" he cries. "Blessed be the names of your martyrs! For they forgave me." Chill Wind. The truth is, of course, quite different. Mr. Shin, refusing to issue a public statement supporting the Communists, had acted the role of a hero, as a captured North Korean officer privately reveals. He had been spared on a whim of the officers: "He was the only...
Catching a Vacuum. An iceboat travels fastest across the wind-on what sailors call "a reach." Its speed results from the sail's efficiency as an airfoil -something like the wing on an airplane. Sailing directly downwind, an iceboat cannot exceed the wind's speed. On a reach, though, the wind produces a vacuum on the lee of the slightly slanting sail. This results in a strong forward force. As the sail pushes forward trying to eliminate the vacuum, an iceboat can attain fantastic speeds -up to five times the actual wind velocity. The ice sailor hauls...