Word: billowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When this couple, so prodigious in their ambition, self-deception and passion, first fell in love, she was the wife of Hans von Billow, a great Wagner admirer who often conducted his work. For a few years Bulow tolerated the affair, even though it brought two Wagner babies into his household. One reason for the unusual arrangement was that all three wanted to keep the scandal from the young King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who was their adoring, idealistic patron. Finally in 1868, pregnant once again, Cosima left for Switzerland to live with Wagner, and here the diary begins...
Suddenly, more than an hour after the puzzling signals began to billow forth, the Vatican's Pericle Felici, ranking Cardinal-deacon in the Sacred College, appeared at the opened Window of the Benediction in the center of St. Peter's Basilica. His Latin words boomed out over loudspeakers: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam!" (I announce to you a great joy. We have a Pope!) The crowd was hushed as Felici went on: "He is the Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord Cardinal Albino Luciani, who has taken the name of John Paul the First [in Latin, Joannes Paulus Primus...
...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...
...brought down for an adjustment of his ailerons. He has 25 different costumes and perhaps six different kinds of capes-for standing, sitting, flying and coming in for a landing. He is now wearing his flying cape, which is stretched out with wires so that it appears to billow in the wind. The changes made, he goes back into the air, accompanied by cheers from local residents who are hanging out of windows. "Hey, Supraman, why cantcha get the cat?" someone shouts in that rich blend of gravel and adenoids known as Brooklynese. "Thattaboy, Supraman!" yells another when he actually...
...Planetarium, light specialists have devised a laser-beam system that throws streamers of color over the dancers and peppers the floor with shards of light. At one moment, the crowd may be enveloped by a mixture of fog and Faberge; at another, clouds of red smoke billow from the floor, subsiding in a gentle shower of emerald as a green laser beam bounces off mirrored balls festooning the ceiling...