Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chances for a record-shattering time in the varsity heavies look fairly dim. For one thing, the 1948 race was rowed with a favorable tide and a substantial tailwind. This year's wind direction is an unknown factor and local fishermen are looking for a slack tide. So, unless the Crimson gets a strong north wind at their backs, there won't be a new record. In any case, Harvard should win and be on their way to Henley and Lucerne by this time next week...
...handle that also acts as a trigger to send jets of air through two hollow tubes, each 2 ft. long. Holding the contraption just below his midriff White could, in his weightless state, manipulate it so as to send him, like a bit of fluff in the wind, in any direction he desired...
Anderson was second in the indoor IC4A 60-yard dash to Sam Perry of Fordham, an Olympic-calibre runner who has been injured this spring. In the 100, Anderson, who has run a wind-aided 9.6, has to be considered a co-favorite with Villanova's Earl Horner and a host of other runners in the 9.7 area...
...disasters hit Pakistan last week, one as modern as the jet age, one as ancient as the wind on the face of the waters. Approaching Cairo, a Pakistani International Airlines Boeing 720B, inaugurating a new Karachi-Cairo-London run, developed engine trouble and crashed. All but six of its 130 passengers and crew were killed, including 21 Pakistani newsmen. "It was the will of God," said Gala Alkarini, one survivor, as seven baboons that had been in the luggage compartment capered, unharmed, amid the smoking ruins...
Born in Paris of Venezuelan parents, Marisol (means "sea and sun" in Spanish) dropped her last name, Escobar, as too masculine-sounding. She came to the U.S. in 1950, settled in Manhattan, and studied with Hans Hofmann. She speaks in the shy monotone whisper of wind wafting through Spanish moss, seems always to be peeking around the corners of her long black hair with nearly expressionless stealth, and only the keenest humor will send a smile rippling across her lips. It is the same face that appears again and again in her art, penciled on wood, cast in plaster, even...