Word: winded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aura of mystery always remains, the legacy of the Western press's hazy early reports of the armies of the Red Guard marching back and forth across the nation, and Chairman Mao's heroic swim down the Yangtze--events without explanation, a massive eruption without obvious cause. In The Wind Will Not Subside, David and Nancy Dall Milton have made an effort to chronicle the course of the movement, from the first breath of internal debate through to the final turn to a new kind of foreign policy, an effort to explain the Cultural Revolution within the framework of China...
...debates within Peking's small foreign community. Their narrative is interwoven with description of the events in their own microcosm of China's students, giving the book the sense of being a traveller's tale as well as a well-researched academic work. Like William Hinton's Fanshen, The Wind has an impact a straight history could not have achieved; but even the Miltons seem bewildered by many aspects of the Cultural Revolution, as if they, too, could not quite fathom the allegory and thetoric in which the debates were couched...
...boom-or-bust U.S. airline industry, profits have been about as permanent as a jet contrail in a wind-blown sky. Yet last week there was evidence that at least some form of profitability had returned to the nation's eleven major scheduled carriers; it is expected to stay intact through the busy summer tourist season and probably through the end of the year. One by one, the airlines reported sharply increased second-quarter earnings-or dramatically reduced losses-v. the savagely depressed similar period of a year ago, when the recession was cutting deeply into pleasure and business...
...might adduce the references in the text to "rough weather" and the like, or the presence of a song like "Blow, blow, thou winter wind." But these are not allusions to the current climate, which should be temperate throughout the play. The most important thing that goes on in Arden is ardent young love and courting (of several kinds), which are hardly abetted by snow on the ground and bare branches in the air. "Men are April when they woo," says the heroine...
...Light winds at 15 m.p.h., shifting as any sensible wind is supposed to do. Temperatures Tuesday ranging from a low of -122° F. to an early afternoon high of -22° F. and pressure of 7.70 millibars." There was no precipitation report: it has not rained on Mars for eons...