Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Four-Letter Word. Scranton thus got an invitation from Ike to talk politics at the former President's Gettysburg farm. Scranton knew what was in the wind. But by now he had fallen in love with his House job, had no ambitions about the governorship. Scranton listened politely to Ike, but kept shaking his head. Finally, just as Scranton was about to leave, Ike unleashed a cruncher. "Bill," he said, "this all comes down to a four-letter word-duty...
...Mariner II will pass plenty close enough to Venus to get a good look. Even at 40,000 miles, its radar and other scientific instruments will be effective if they work properly. Meanwhile, its en route instruments are measuring the solar wind, the great blast of electrically charged particles that the sun shoots out in all directions. At present the wind is rather gentle, but it can rise to hurricane force when a brilliant flare erupts on the sun's surface...
...Carrousel Rooster scampers off to nowhere, each wooden feather in place. A copper lady of fashion, which once adorned a dressmaker's establishment, is a swirl of rhythm. Eagles, monkeys, cats, lions, woodchucks, hogs, pouter pigeons, turtles and horses make up a delightful menagerie that reported on the wind, beckoned to the thirsty, announced the presence of circuses, and symbolized the glory of the nation. To the most humdrum of days, they added a touch of color; to the drabbest of buildings, they gave a bit of dignity; and for the vitality and imagination of a whole people, they...
...there any obvious compelling need for such a drastic departure. "You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements," wrote British Author Norman (South Wind) Douglas. Allowing for occasional flaws in the glass, advertising is simply a mammoth mirror of the world around it, and the intellectuals who flog advertising are using it, consciously or unconsciously, as a whipping boy for all that they dislike about U.S. society and the U.S. character. In the most effective rebuttal any adman has yet made to Arnold Toynbee, William Bernbach wrote: "Mr. Toynbee's real hate is not advertising...
...forces. The company is also developing a vertical-takeoff supersonic bomber, in conjunction with Republic Aviation, which two years ago acquired one-third of Fokker's stock. But Fokker's chief hope for the future lies in building a jet successor to the F27. Already in wind-tunnel tests are models of the short-haul twin-jet F-28, which would cruise at 500 m.p.h. and carry 44 to 60 passengers. To appeal to underdeveloped countries where flying is booming, Fokker has designed the plane to be cheap, rugged, and simple to operate. "The underdeveloped countries will hurdle...