Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soft and subtle shades are worked onto the translucent paper in geometric blocks or bright floral patterns. The inner bamboo frame is as delicately engineered as one of Nervi's tilted arches. Although they look fragile, Reynolds' bangasa are stronger in the wind than regular umbrellas, which reliably invert just when wind and rain are heaviest...
Shunted to the proper slot of a mechanical sorter, letters wind up in one of 279 bins representing major U.S. postal zones...
There was a time when any Congressman traveling abroad was automatically labeled a junketeer, when an Adam Clayton Powell might wind up on the shores of the Aegean with a couple of pretty secretaries, and an Allen Ellender might inflame all of black Africa with tartly phrased racist comments. No more-or hardly any more...
...Lincoln, Neb. The field-like many military and small private airports-had only one runway, leaving him little choice in the direction of his approach and landing. As he struggled with the controls, Conrey longed for a landing strip that would always allow him to approach into the wind-no matter what its direction. Why not a circular runway? he asked himself. With great single-mindedness, he polished his idea, found an ideal test site-the banked, circular General Motors test track at Mesa, Ariz.-and persuaded the Navy to get G.M.'s permission for landing and takeoff tests...
...Quick as the wind that often stirred the banana trees with utter ferocity in his home town, where his favorite horse had died an alcoholic death, the smart copper jumped on the thief just as the sinister individual was about to ride off on his faithful vehicle...