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1905 S. Naidu Golden Threshold 97 The wind of change for ever blows Across the tumult of our way.

1927 D. H. Lawrence Mornings in Mexico 154 The place of after~life and before-life, where house the winds of change.

1932 J. Clapham Econ. Hist. Mod. Britain II. iii. 107 The [gas] companies or municipal works with their comfortable monopoly areas..began to find a little wind of change blowing among their retorts and coke heaps.

1954 J. Masters Bhowani Junction xxxix. 345 Then the great changes swept across India and the world, and she had searched, not by deliberate plan but because the wind of change blew through her too, for ways of escape.

1960 H. Macmillan in Times 4 Feb. 15/3 The wind of change is blowing through the continent.

1960 Economist 15 Oct. 275/2 This is but one way in which the mining complex of De Beers, Anglo American and Rhodesian Anglo American is adapting itself to the winds of change in Africa.

1965 D. Francis Odds Against vi. 86 ‘Is this your own show..or whose?’ ‘I suppose—mine.’ ‘Uh-huh... The wind of change, if I read it right?’

1971 Nature 26 Nov. 179/1 The universities are also likely to feel some eddies from the winds of change that are swirling around the White House.

1976 ‘J. Charlton’ Remington Set xiv. 69 The winds of change are beginning to blow..and your purpose in life isn't quite as defensible..as it used to be.