Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seconds, they drive teachers batty. Most teachers aim to tame them by putting "your foot on their neck," and by spooning out futilely alien education from pap-filled primers that extol civilized white virtues. As a result, Maori kids tend to hate reading, fall behind in school, and wind up being labeled "stupid." It is just such frustration (or repression), argues Teacher, that leads some Maoris to become neurotics, brawlers, defeatists and alcoholics...
...either direction, its altitude seems to be about 150,000 ft. Significantly, the upper jet stream is a warm wind, ideal for refracting sound waves...
...sensitive that it knows when a teaspoonful of water is brought into a room. It took a Honeywell gyroscope to measure the Empire State Building's maximum sway (onequarter inch) and bury forever the tourist canard that the world's tallest building rocks in a high wind. Eye examinations will eventually be more comfortable because of a Honeywell device that measures eyeball pressure with a quick and painless puff...
...world turned brown," cried Coffee Farmer Soguro Saito, who lost 5,000 of his 9,000 trees to the wind. Worried Coffeegrower Raimundo Pereira complained bitterly: "The cold wind that ruined my trees has no pity." Thousands of ruined farmers will have to wait two years to harvest another coffee crop, but, in Brazil's one-crop economy, the wind also meant hardship for countless others. Dozens of coffee-roasting plants and wholesale buyers will have nothing to work with; truckers will have nothing to haul; laborers on the large plantations will be laid...
Nonetheless, there is still an awful lot of coffee in Brazil. Though many people will be hurt by the wind, in the topsyturvy economic world of production gluts nature has done what man has trouble doing. In the past few years, 200 million trees have been deliberately rooted up in Brazil and their beans burned, but 50 million surplus sacks of coffee still overflow the country's bulging warehouses. In the normal supply-and-demand world, a bad crop should make prices go up. But under the new quotas drawn up by the 48-nation International Coffee Council, Brazil...