Word: bounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever since New Delhi sent troops into the region two years ago this month. As 650 national conference delegates tented on the maharaja's once inviolable polo field, a five-man U.N. commission quietly pulled out of the maharaja's riverside guesthouse and left town. It was bound for Geneva to prepare a report on its failure to win an agreement between India and Pakistan on Kashmir...
...about as profitable as to the non-dollar areas," Smithies points out. "I doubt if anything besides devaluation would have worked. And without devaluation the United States either would have to continue subsidizing Britain beyond 1952 or else abandon her to wrestle with the financial crisis that would seem bound to occur...
France's General Charles de Gaulle declared that the Atlantic pact had lost most of its efficacy. Intoned the sepulchral voice of Paris' Le Monde: "Whatever the future of the giants . . . Europe is bound to be abandoned to herself . . . She no longer guards the 'fire' of the century . . . War or peace will be decided by others...
...over Scotland's Renfrew Airfield, a 7-oz. plover with Kamikaze tendencies flew head-on into a London-bound British European Airways Dakota and brought the big aircraft to earth for repairs. In Suffolk, meanwhile, an armed task force of 100 British countrymen so far forgot their sporting instincts as to go after rapidly multiplying British foxes with guns...
...hundred forty-five members of the Band left Cambridge yesterday afternoon in four buses bound for the New York Y.M.C.A., where the "best in the business" will encamp for today's Columbia game...