Word: winded
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Control Data's profits have been dampened over the years by Norris' enthusiasm for social causes and experimental projects. He has committed the company to ventures that range from the development of wind-powered generators to an effort to revitalize urban neighborhoods. Says Gary Blauer, an analyst with Dain Bosworth, a Minneapolis-based brokerage: "Control Data clearly has in the past been willing to nurture a business for a very long period of time when it wasn't profitable. Wall Street has a hard time with that...
...begin a five-day visit, the first to Japan by a Soviet Foreign Minister since Andrei Gromyko, now the Soviet President, stepped on Japanese soil ten years ago. The latest visitor set an optimistic note, declaring his hope that the two nations will be blown closer together by a "wind of change...
...just awful," Loudilla Johnson told a shaken guest a lifetime later. "It sucks the shingles right off one side of the house." Kay Johnson volunteered that the wind recently removed two railroad engines from a nearby track. Loretta Johnson said it once blew her from the yard outside the farmhouse to the crest of a distant hill before she could get some purchase. Their father, Mack Johnson, who had been hauling wheat, said it was nothing compared with some of the blows the family had been through. At that point, the visitor resolved that if anybody in the house answered...
...shuttle takeoff is never a smooth ascent; heavy buffeting and shaking rattle the craft, and the crew is deafened by a clanking, metallic roar. Because of turbulence caused by sudden wind shifts, Challenger's crew had an especially rocky launch right from lift-off. Just 72 seconds into the flight--a second and a half before the explosion--the orbiter yawed suddenly to the right. As the righthand rocket booster broke loose, spewing superhot gases from a faulty joint, the shuttle's engines tried to compensate for the loss of pressure, and the crew must have felt swift side...
...half a million Peking schoolchildren have fanned out into the city's streets to look for "bad characters." Another Cultural Revolution in the making? Not at all. The Young Pioneers, a political version of boy and girl scouts, are taking part in a scholarly exercise called "Let the spring wind drive away wrong characters." Dictionaries in hand, they are scouring the city for incorrect Chinese characters in advertisements, shop names and road signs. The kids have found and corrected 40,000 bad characters...