Word: winded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some 50 functions now performed by other agencies throughout the federal bureaucracy. It has a management responsibility, including the huge Bonneville dam project, a weapons research-and-development complex stemming from the old Atomic Energy Commission, and a huge research-and-development program that explores energy sources from wind to thermonuclear fusion. The new department will also create some new sections, notably an Energy Information Administration, which will develop reliable statistics about oil and gas output and reserves, and an Economic Regulatory Administration, which will audit and police the energy companies more closely...
...maritime unions are small-a total membership of 76,000-but their political puissance rivals the billow of a spinnaker in a full wind. One reason: knowing that the U.S. shipping industry survives largely by Government subsidy, the unions have been willing to contribute to the campaigns of friendly politicians. One is President Carter, whose support of the unions is now subjecting him to angry charges of "political payoff' by Republicans brandishing Administration memos apparently slipped to them by somebody inside the White House...
Shifting direction with the swirling and eddying wind, the fire capriciously leapfrogged several of the Spanish-style houses. The $60,000 home of high school Dean Robert Mangus was saved primarily by a grove of avocado trees, which served as a fire screen. Said Robert's wife Jean: "The next morning there was a beautiful sunrise. All we could hear was somebody sobbing and it echoed through the canyon...
...Paris, Serge Lepage showed his collection for the House of Schiaparelli in a grandiose public display. A massive outside staircase was erected to the couture house's second floor, and the models-making their entrances from the windows-emerged into the Paris rain and wind. Olympic torches on the landings blew in the wind as the mannequins in their capes and lavishly embroidered chasubles stood with arms outstretched like sacrificial victims...
...short, it should be no trade for a tyro, even an attractive girl of 26 who happened to wind up controlling one of the world's largest privately owned fleets. So how is Christina Onassis doing in her first job? At the very least, the willful and somewhat impetuous only surviving child of the great Golden Greek, Aristotle Onassis, who died in March 1975, has given the shipping world some surprises. At first, the closely knit Greek shipping fraternity expected her to steer clear of the business altogether. Then, when she asserted her rights as beneficiary...