Word: winded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part of that leadership was the act of voting in a democratic election and of proving to the world that democracy works-in all kinds of wind and weather. For it was important for the world to know that the nation which had conceived the Marshall Plan and created the Berlin airlift could change its own leadership at home without altering its concept of freedom or changing its will for peace...
...Marshall Pass, Colo. Twice a week the train with the mail from Salida comes chuffing up the Denver & Rio Grande Western, snuffling around the bare ribs of the Colorado mountains like an old hound dog on a cold trail. In the quiet at 11,000 feet, when the wind is right, Postmaster Gus Latham can hear the train coming about an hour before it arrives. Marshall Pass (pop. 11) is the U.S.'s smallest post office. Gus, who has lived in Marshall Pass for the last 21 of his 64 years, has been postmaster since 1943. Said...
Hurrah for Uncle Autumn. Western Germany last week was full of hope. The summer had been cold and rainy, but it had been followed by a glorious golden autumn. On the freshly harvested fields, which had yielded a bumper crop, children launched their kites into the brisk wind; it seemed, sometimes, as though the gaily colored Drachen rode high enough to touch the C-54s which droned overhead in their ceaseless shuttle to Berlin...
...wind sprints ended the practice day for all players, and it was well before six when they pulled off their soggy jerseys and prepared to demolish the food at Bingham's Varsity Club Restaurant and pool room...
...hear my voice, and think I hear the wind...