Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well-read line of "great books" (still the rule at Maryland's famed St. John's College). Simpson argues that now "people can get themselves educated in all kinds of ways," and that a student who probes almost any subject deeply enough these days is likely to wind up needing more knowledge in a broad spectrum of many other subjects. If this is so, colleges may be able to make specialists who are sufficiently generalist. To give Chicago the proper atmosphere for such a development, British-born Dean Simpson envisions a switch to the English system of undisturbed...
Thirteen smiling Poonies the East wing of the council chamber in hopes of offering their alternative legislation. According to Vellucci, "They looked like the type that will wind up down in Washington messing up our international affairs...
...side of the established order without bothering to examine the presuppositions of that order: most undergraduates view that thesis as just the last hurdle to the B.A. with some sort of honors, not as an outstanding and original contribution to knowledge. They know that the thesis will wind up in the basement of University Hall, probably never to be again, looked upon by human eyes...
...Weather Bureau blamed America's freeze on a "meandering strong wind current" flowing south from Canada, offered what comfort it could by announcing, "As cold as it is, it is not as severe as the great cold wave of 1899 . . ." The record cold so threatened the survival of southern Europe's migratory birds that the International Hunting Council asked European governments to ban all hunting until the spring thaw; in Italy and Germany, fish hatcheries reported widespread losses as ice cut off the oxygen supply of breeding fish...
...about to ask Congress to approve sharp revisions in R.O.T.C. The Air Force wants to cut four-year A.F.R.O.T.C. to two, beginning in a student's junior year, with weekly class time reduced from five hours to three. Sweetening its bid with scholarships, the Air Force hopes to wind up with far more career officers, yet spend a lot less money. Also saving money in the new budget, the Army has cut out high school R.O.T.C., which enrolled 60,000 students and cost...