Word: leeward
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...Young man on the right, my Young readers," and the Sage of the Age, and a very Young age it is too, "is Leeward Skreindler, Young Dartmouth politics, cheerleader, and vendor of hand-painted ties. When not practicing the old locomotive, Skreindler is prone to wend his way upward on the political ladder two, Youngs at a time...
Died. Matthew Phipps Shiel, 81, Irish-descended, West Indies-born British novelist, writer of many a florid, adventurous novel, onetime (1887) "King Philip I" of tiny, one-square-mile Redonda, one of the, Leeward Islands (until the British Government moved in, ending his three-year "reign"); in Chichester, England...
...strike. Chimneys that usually belch clouds of smoke emit only a weak little puff now & then. The resounding thud of a sledge on an animal's forehead is missing. No blood runs on killing floors. The lonesome watchmen make their rounds in silence. To leeward there is no smell...
...brimstone. He succeeds in making the Gaunt Woman one gigantic time bomb for the ruin of her U-boat offspring. As she blows, Bannon lifts "his clenched hands in a gesture of malediction," says "so perish the enemies of free men." With his incipient "Navy wife" Margaret nestling to leeward, he sets off after his halibut...
Although it looked good from the ground, the half-hour test was called only "25% successful" because a breeze came up and blew the smoke away. Gary itself was about as clean afterward as before, but citizens of Michigan City-25 miles to leeward-called it a "dirty...