Word: winded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...howling wind cascaded through the cabin so fast that one woman's earrings were pulled from her ears. Oxygen masks popped free (some people later complained that several oxygen compartments failed to open). "It was a nightmare," said passenger Dalenya Poliszcuk. A shower of ice cubes from the beverage carts and all sorts of personal possessions filled the air. "There were shoes blown back from the front of the plane," reported passenger Andrew Gannon. "A stewardess went flying, and another one tried to calm everybody down...
With an Alumni Association slate full ofnewsmakers and corporate heads, FitzGerald said,"we don't wind up with a completely representativeBoard." She said the Board needs people from otherprofessions, such as teachers and doctors...
...sudden, I could see the sky and feel the wind," said passenger Koji Yamamoto, 23, of Osaka, Japan. "The roof was breaking. Something was blowing toward...
...case for most Harvard j.v. teams, preparatory school varsity teams like Phillips Andover or Governor Dummer regularly wind up on the schedule. Of the six prep school teams the Crimson has faced this year, it has defeated only...
...eventually eased, but other problems arose. Congress passed a sweeping deregulatory law in 1982 that permitted S & Ls to make loans for a raft of new businesses. At the same time, some states allowed their locally chartered thrifts to run wild. Suddenly no venture was too farfetched: ethanol plants, wind farms, Las Vegas casinos and commuter airlines. S & L managers who were accustomed to making simple residential mortgages were ill prepared to evaluate the new kinds of credit risks. The great mistake in deregulation was not so much the easing of rules but the failure of the federal and state...