Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bullet from which this lead residue came was probably one of those that struck the President and therefore came from overhead and to the rear. Experts established that the abrasion in the wind shield came from impact on the inside of the glass...
...third heat with five finalists rolled around, and now even the gods were angry: a buffeting 40-m.p.h. wind whipped across the desert. Neither Miro Slovak nor Bob Love seemed to notice; both had won their second heats, and this one had $5,000 riding on it. Wingtip to wingtip they howled down the straightaway at less than 25-ft. altitude, stood shuddering on one wing in vertical, 7-G turns around the pylons. On the back stretch of the second lap, Slovak had the lead. Then they disappeared into a dust cloud. When they blasted through, Love...
From Pomona, Calif., to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the girls and their wardrobes are the snazziest in years. Gone with the wind are the Shiny-Nosed Adolescent (shirttail flapping over tattered Levi's), the Blue-Blooded Aristocrat (cashmere sweater, flannel skirt, and a single strand of perfect pearls), the Walleyed Scholar (sloped shoulders, sensible shoes, and a pleated skirt left over from ice-hockey days), and the flocks of Amenable Parrots (kneesocks, muffler, a Peck & Peck raincoat, and a penny for every loafer). In their place these days is a sleekly feathered creature who swings her hair when she walks, wears...
...Crimson side, McCluskey was looking just as good. He led the team shrewdly on a 67-yard first-quarter march, the kind that so often seems to wind up with a Harvard fumble...
...people that the civil rights worker gets to know in Mississippi. Most workers get used to the cars that slowly circle the freedom house, drivers glaring at summer volunteers who sit on the porch. Or the carloads of white men, speeding past on the highway screaming curses into the wind and thrusting their arms into the air in obscene gestures. Every field worker experienced the automobile chases by dark and daylight. Seventeen cars chased freedom workers back to Holly Springs at speeds over 100 m.p.h. after one night meeting in Oxford, Miss. But more often its just a pickup without...