Word: winded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State--and, of course, all those Chinese who died in the nuclear war--Drury now has 3000 years of Egyptian history to play around with. The possibilities are, unfortunately, almost endless. One can only hope that Drury will learn a different song-and-dance soon, before we all wind up losers...
...world beyond China, she knew little. The only American Presidents she remembered from her history lessons were Washington ("a great man") and Lincoln. She studied Gone With the Wind to understand the Civil War. She also studied American westerns and did not seem to grasp fully that they were fictional reconstructions and did not portray contemporary reality. To her, the westerns proved that "monopoly capitalist groups" had been responsible for killing off the Indians. "The working people would not act like that...
...troupe acted out various scenes from text-books, illustrating the sex-role stereotypes forced on school children. In one scene, the little boys blew on their pinwheels to make them spin, while the little girls waited in vain for the wind to make their pinwheels go. "Maybe there'll be wind tomorrow," the wide-eyed and gray-bearded Ira says sweetly, as he holds up his imaginary pinwheel...
...kicks prices up rapidly, at least through 1978. By then, Government economists expect to begin whittling down the deficit by a combination of budget cuts and increased tax revenues to be generated by a healthily expanding economy. In addition, Administration officials figure that the deficit for fiscal 1977 could wind up as much as $10 billion below the $68 billion officially projected. Reason: the spending shortfalls that first showed up in the budget last year are continuing. No one is certain why the Government is spending less than it had expected. One guess is that agencies had overestimated how rapidly...
Long before the invention of the rocket, man dreamed of hoisting sail and traveling through space in wind-blown ships. In The True History, a tale written in the 2nd century A.D. by the satirist and onetime lawyer, Lucian of Samosata, a ship with a 50-man crew is caught in an Atlantic storm, carried aloft and sent, sail billowing, on a journey to the moon. Later storytellers launched ships with sails on even more fanciful space trips. But none of these fictional voyages was as remarkable as the mission now being planned for NASA by scientists at Pasadena...