Word: wind-blown
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Long before the invention of the rocket, man dreamed of hoisting sail and traveling through space in wind-blown ships. In The True History, a tale written in the 2nd century A.D. by the satirist and onetime lawyer, Lucian of Samosata, a ship with a 50-man crew is caught in an Atlantic storm, carried aloft and sent, sail billowing, on a journey to the moon. Later storytellers launched ships with sails on even more fanciful space trips. But none of these fictional voyages was as remarkable as the mission now being planned for NASA by scientists at Pasadena...
...stayed in Urgup, a sprawling, wind-blown town. In its center stands a massive hill, hollowed out in the Middle Ages as a place of refuge. The hill is now crowned by a huge neon likeness of Ataturk, the father of modern Turkey. Surprisingly elegant houses--all with brown Venetian facades--line the hillside...
...boom-or-bust U.S. airline industry, profits have been about as permanent as a jet contrail in a wind-blown sky. Yet last week there was evidence that at least some form of profitability had returned to the nation's eleven major scheduled carriers; it is expected to stay intact through the busy summer tourist season and probably through the end of the year. One by one, the airlines reported sharply increased second-quarter earnings-or dramatically reduced losses-v. the savagely depressed similar period of a year ago, when the recession was cutting deeply into pleasure and business...
...Radcliffe varsity tennis team, playing without the services of injured singles player Diana Olney, relied on its veteran doubles teams to pull off a clutch 6-3 victory over Dartmouth yesterday on the wind-blown Soldiers Field courts...
...forced to make them all loud-mouthed fools, blabbering their life secrets from separate pedestals. James Maxwell's boyish reporter, then is too much the eager puppy (on his way up); Robert Gerringer's Ernesto is too loud and theatrical. With the exception of Alexander Scourby as a wind-blown Papa, none of the actors can handle these pressures...