Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most powerful favorite son of all is California's Ronald Reagan, whose 86 convention votes just might wind up in Rockefeller's column if Reagan's own dark-horse position blacks out completely and if a Rockefeller-Reagan ticket can then be constructed. A deal with Reagan would almost certainly devalue Rockefeller's ultimate trump card-his appeal to Democrats and independents in the general election-but in presidential politics the nomination comes first...
...Gassman, "so I called it the 'California Roman Party' to honor the foreigners in town." From the sound of it, La Dolce Vita is alive and well in Rome. Partygoers boogalooed through the night, watched underground flicks, forked in vats of pasta, and things didn't wind up until next morning when the fathers at the next-door theological seminary complained that the racket was disturbing their Sunday services...
...sheer bulk of big cities slows the cleansing winds; at the same time, rising city heat helps to create thermal inversions (warm air above cold) that can trap smog for days-a crisis that in 1963 killed 400 New Yorkers. Cars complete the deadly picture. While U.S. chimneys belch 100,000 tons of sulfur dioxide every day, 90 million motor vehicles add 230,000 tons of carbon monoxide (52% of smog) and other lethal gases, which then form ozone and peroxyacetyl nitrate that kill or stunt many plants, ranging from orchids to oranges. Tetraethyl lead in auto exhausts affects human...
...through the window like Batman climbs Professor Orest Ranum, liberal, his academic robes billowing in the wind. We laugh at his appearance. He tells us that our action will precipitate a massive right wing reaction in the faculty. He confides that the faculty had been nudging Kirk toward resignation, but now we've blown everything; the faculty will flock to support the president. We'll all be arrested, he says, and we'll all be expelled. He urges us to leave. We say no. One of us points out that Sorel said only violent action changes things. Ranum says that...
...took him three tries, but Schoonover took advantage of a favoring wind and a new pole to make New England's first collegiate 16-foot jump. Using a Heavy. Test pole designed for a 165-pound vaulter (he weighs 152), Schoonover later cleared 16'41/2...