Word: winded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large portion of the credit for this Crimson victory must go, unfortunately, to the adverse weather which prevailed throughout the game. A high wind was blowing at most times and the temperature was a wintry 40 degrees. B.C. pitcher George Giersch, perhaps the finest hurler in the Greater Boston League is primarily a slow ball, control pitcher, and he just could not keep the fine edge on his pitches under such conditions...
...Aided by a 12-m.p.h. wind that made his effort unofficial, Abilene Christian's Bill Woodhouse, 21, did the 100-yd. dash in 9.1 sec., became the third man to reach such a clocking. The others: ex-Southern California Star Mel Patton, and Bobby Morrow, a former Woodhouse teammate at Abilene Christian...
...shooting the dogs, the terror of being dragged off the ice by vicious 1,100-Ib. sea leopards that could leap from the water and catch a running man. The expedition physicist scrawled in his tattered diary: "A bug on a single molecule of oxygen in a gale of wind would have about the same chance of predicting where he was likely to finish...
...hefty wind blew in from left field during the contest, holding up several balls at the base of the fence and keeping the score down considerably...
Just then a gust of wind lifted the straw hat from Jessie's head and blew it through the air until it landed among a congregation of floating ducks. "Boy oh boy!" said Georgie. "Will it sink...