Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...metal or wood case containing an explosive for use in blasting. The word's root is a French word meaning "to break wind...
...like small ice "seeds," and supercooled droplets of water instantly froze around them. Instant icing released the latent heat of fusion, equivalent to the energy of eight 20-kiloton atomic bombs. In one hour, radar showed that a 160° segment of the chimney had been knocked out. Maximum wind speeds dropped by as much as 14% in the seeded sector. But two hours after seeding stopped, Esther had repaired the damage...
...Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Ru dolf Bultmann, he preaches an oldfashioned, timeless spirituality that echoes the language of the Authorized Version. "By sophisticated attempts to be contemporary at all costs," he said once, "we blunt the force that lies in the universal imagery of the Bible: bread, water, light, darkness, wind, fire, rain, hunger, thirst, eat, drink, walk...
Beach Party is an anthropological documentary with songs. Robert Cummings, in ambush behind a wind-Schwepped beard, is gathering material for a book on teen-age sex play. Just outside his window at Balboa Beach, the puberty rites and other coming-of-age-in-California shenanigans of a tribe of overripe adolescents are in full cry, and Cummings' telescope and electronic eavesdropping rig provide him with an eye-opening earful...
...frost wind turns it brittle on my palm...