Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russian explanation was transparently phony. Obviously the MIGs knew from listening in that the unarmed plane was having radio trouble. In fact, the T-39 probably had a complete electrical breakdown that knocked out its navigational equipment as well as the radios. This, and a 45-knot wind from the west, would account for the trespass. But that did not explain why the Russian fighters disregarded time-honored rules for handling airspace violations. Countless such violations occur in the crowded, nervous skies over the border between West and East Germany. Normally the trespasser-U.S. or Russian-is forced...
...Negro since Rowan was a boy. Rowan found that not much had changed. With typical pungency, he wrote: "You do not expose racial hatred and social and economic injustices any more than you expose a fresh dunghill; you tell Americans that it exists and wait until the wind blows in their direction." Rowan's reporting, at home and abroad, won national awards; he wrote four books, became a popular lecturer, earned some $40,000 a year. But he left all that in 1961 for an $18,000-a-year State Department...
Ploughshare scientists believe that if they are careful about atmospheric and wind conditions when shots are fired, shock waves in the air will do no serious damage, but scientists are not so sure about ground shock waves. If 50 megatons must be exploded to cut a hole in a mountain ridge, ground shock may shake down buildings many miles away. Luckily, at least three of the most promising canal routes go through almost uninhabited country, with little but jungle and a few huts to be damaged. Another possible danger is radioactivity that may seep up through the bottom...
Tennis buffs have dreamed for years of a grass court where the rain never falls and the sun never blinds and the wind never blows. It is more than a dream in Litchfield, Conn., where the Forman School recently unveiled its synthetic solution to the problem-a tennis court surfaced with grass made of vinyl and sheltered by a nylon tent...
...Conn., widowed grandmother of ten, a sport parachutist and balloon enthusiast who once said, "I go up in a balloon because it's living. Who wants to sit home and knit an afghan when you can sit suspended under a 40-foot bag and be part of the wind?"; by drowning, when her hot-air balloon drifted off course during a race from Santa Catalina Island to the Southern California coast, was found 42 hours later...