Word: winded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mike") Hoare, 55, leader of the fabled Fifth Mercenary Commando that fought in the Congo during the early '60s, seemed to be gearing up for action. Said one of the commandos at Hoare's annual reunion last week in Johannesburg: "There's something in the wind. I believe that negotiations are taking place. We feel there may be a role for us in Angola...
...upshot is that the nation seems likely to wind up with an oil-price policy that has some potentially beneficial provisions and some serious flaws. Gradual decontrol is certainly preferable to abrupt decontrol. But the price rollback, while giving some temporary relief to inflation-pressed consumers, probably would boost oil consumption and depress production. And the bill contains no special tax incentives for pumping out hard-to-get oil. In short, Congress has only postponed the tough steps that must eventually be taken to free the nation from its growing dependence on foreign...
...Society has its own publishing firm, Western Islands, but carries as a service to its members hosts of books like Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, as well as Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. But the Society's own "brilliant" writers are rather obscure--Welch's choice in 1965 for "quite possibly the world's greatest living scholar," Relivo P. Oliver, was a professor of classics at the University of Illinois...
...became apparent that Dylan, now 34, has not been this free and loose since the days when he was putting folk rock on the map, way back in 1965. He seemed most carefree when he and Baez joined to sing such old Dylan classics as Blowin' in the Wind and I Shall Be Released. And why not? As they put their heads together in front of the mike, Joan would put her arm around Bob, mop his brow, kiss his cheek. Most important were several new songs that indicate that the creative fires may be burning brighter than...
Stuart Haber '78, three juggling clubs clamped firmly between his legs, blew on his hands, driving away the stiffness caused by the chilling afternoon wind...