Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pressure sucked layers of cooler air in beneath it. The weather men named the mass Flora-sixth hurricane of the 1963 season-and commenced the routine precautions that in recent years have taken some of the bite out of the fierce storms: hurricane-hunter planes to check course, speed, wind velocity, intensity of the rain; detailed advisories and instructions to everyone in the storm's path. But in one of those violent quirks of nature, incredibly compounded by man, all the warnings proved futile. By the time Flora finished her ten-day rampage through the Caribbean, she went down...
Foretaste on Tobago. Swiftly, the wind rose to 75-m.p.h. hurricane force, then, to 90, 100 and 110. At noon on Sept. 30, Flora swept down on the island of Tobago, the legendary land of Robinson Crusoe off the Venezuelan coast. Entire plantations of coconut palms were flattened as by a scythe. It took only four hours for Flora to come and go. In her path she left 18 dead, hundreds injured, some 17,000 homeless, and property damage that helpless authorities estimated at many millions...
...only truth in this picture is that Tech girls have brains. They consistently do as well as or better than the boys. All take the same standard freshman calculus and chemistry; most wind up majoring in math or science. As for looks, Tech now boasts striking equations-long legs, wind-blown hair, fresh faces-attached to creatures who turn out to be working on doctorates in fluid dynamics while researching hydrofoils for the Navy...
...concentrating on increasing Coke's worldwide lead, searching for more outlets to add to Coke's 1,850 distributors in 122 nations. "We stay scared and we run hard," he says. Racing against that competition, Pepsi clearly is still running uphill, but it has developed a certain wind and toughness for the task. That toughness is apparent in Don Kendall, who opened a new plant every 11½ working days during two years of his tenure as international president, and has no intention of slowing down. Not for him the pause that refreshes...
...paper commented that it was probably the last mass protest the government would permit. It wrote: "The days when students could protest, secure in the faceless anonymity of a crowd are gone; he who protests now must stand single and alone, fanned by a cold wind of censure from a ruthless and intolerant government." The editorial concluded that "the choice between silence and protest has been made infinitely more difficult...