Word: winded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Chase Manhattan to rookie sanitation men must be prepared to make some sacrifices. But these sacrifices will have to be imposed from outside, as the necessary price for saving the city and the nation from the unquestionably deleterious effects of letting New York twist slowly, slowly in the wind...
Michael E. Mandelbaum, assistant professor of Government, said yesterday he believes the two incidents were unrelated. "Rockefeller got tired of being the target of right wing abuse and decided to spare himself the humiliation of being left to twist in the wind by Ford...
...data, including the first photographic image of the hidden Venusian landscape-a jumble of large jagged rocks rather than the sandy desert expected by some experts. Said Project Scientist Boris Nepoklonov: "We thought there couldn't be rocks on Venus [because] they would all be annihilated by constant wind and temperature erosion, but here they are, with edges absolutely not blunted. This picture makes us reconsider all our concepts of Venus...
Since it lost $55 million during the first half, Pan Am may wind up in the red for the full year too. But its startlingly bright third-quarter showing clearly improves its chances of borrowing needed capital. The airline recently arranged a two-month extension of its current $125 million credit agreement with 36 banks, and it is now asking them for a new commitment of about $100 million. The July-September upturn also means that Pan Am is no longer dependent for its survival on a proposed $300 million investment by Iran. Indeed, if currently stalled negotiations...
...moderns like Alfred North Whitehead and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and these lines from William Blake: "It is an easy thing to laugh at wrathful elements,/ To hear the dog howl at the wintry door, the ox in the slaughter house moan;/ To see a god on every wind & a blessing on every blast...