Word: winded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show of regional loyalties, Quincy residents urged the MWRA to put the dump on Boston Harbor's Spectacle Island, while South Boston residents--who said they lived down-wind from that site--strongly criticized the proposal...
With a stiff wing blowing in from the closed end of the Stadium, Restic wanted to have the wind at his team's back during the fourth quarter. Harvard did indeed win the toss, and deferred its choice. The Crimson was thus able to go with the wind in the fourth quarter, a factor which may have proved decisive in the tight ballgame...
...With the wind, Harvard had smooth sailing...
...trimming his sails, Bork left his liberal critics scurrying to revise their tactics. Said Nan Aron, director of the Alliance for Justice: "He's not coming across as a cool, intellectual thinker but as someone who changes his mind according to which way the wind is blowing." The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights produced a seven-page analysis called Bork v. Bork that declared, "What the New Judge Bork now says differs significantly from the Old Judge Bork on free speech, discrimination on the basis of sex, privacy and contraception...
...toxic cloud leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, causing history's biggest industrial accident, a new book alleges that the tragedy may have been even more gruesome than assumed. The Indian government has said 2,700 people died at Bhopal. But in A Killing Wind (McGraw-Hill; 297 pages; $19.95), Author Dan Kurzman asserts that the death toll was at least 8,000. He speculates that Indian officials understated the figures in part to "keep the political shock waves under control...