Word: winded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blue Wind blows new life into an ancient...
Yamit's residents are Israeli and intend to remain so. Their streets are patch-worked with blue-and-white Israeli flags snapping defiantly in the desert wind. Should Begin or another Premier eventually agree to return Sinai to Egypt, the settlers intend to try by court action to hold the government to a 1971 promise to keep the settlements under Israeli control. But most of the residents would leave if the Egyptians returned. Says Carol Rosenblatt, a 36-year-old mother of three from Miami Beach whose thatch-roofed restaurant is a local gathering place: "I brought my kids...
...There are many beautiful things," Sofu Teshigahara has written. "The silent beauty of a flower surpasses them all. Among beautiful women there are said to be silent beautiful women, but none can compare with the silent flower." Sofu (the name means Blue Wind) is revered for such views in a land where a beautiful blossom is a benison. Round, gnome-like Teshigahara, 77, is Japan's most innovative and successful master of the ancient art of ikebana, which bears about the same relationship to flower arranging as usually practiced in the West as Rachmaninoff to country rock. Within that...
...process. Since a student body can only be as diverse as its applicant pool, the Admissions Office actively recruits people from distinctive backgrounds as well as people with special talents in athletics and the arts. As Michelle Green, an admissions officer, says, "If we ever stopped recruiting, we would wind up with an all-white, all-prep, all-brain student body...
Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer prizewinning poet, reflecting on the late Carl Sandburg: "He was a largeness, and easy in his day. He stood large in what turned out to be (after much care) raw wheat, much blown by the wind...