Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...likes of me, to whom Jackie Kennedy worship is just one more instance of mass subliminal brainwashing, your Aug. 28th cover story on the down-to-earth charms of Lady Bird Johnson was like a freshening wind through Texas loblolly pine. I can think of no happier new casts for the much-abused American-woman image here and abroad than the zest, common sense and candor of this new First Lady...
McCormack was not interested in the black-leather-jacket set. He peopled his ads with hair-in-the-wind young lovers, bowler-hatted executives and pert grandmas-along with the slogan: "You meet the nicest people on a Honda." From a standing start, sales revved up to $31,921,995 last year and an estimated $67 million this year. Two other Japanese firms (Suzuki and Yamaha) have jumped in to share the bonanza, and their combined sales will amount to about $28 million by year...
They also have Henry Albert Bauer, 42, the brightest and ugliest face in baseball, who should be a cinch for Manager of the Year, even if the Orioles lose all their remaining games and wind up 25 games out of first...
...afternoon last week the wind kicked up to 15 knots-hardly a roaring nor'easter but plenty stiff for Eagle to show what she had. And that was not enough. Constellation boomed out ahead after the start, tucked Eagle neatly into her backwind, was 43 sec. ahead rounding the first mark, and wound up clobbering Eagle by 4 min. 29 sec. Less than two hours later, Commodore Henry Morgan, chairman of the New York Yacht Club Selection Committee, stepped aboard Connie at her moorings. "It is my very happy duty," he said, "to announce that Constellation has been selected...
...hotels were hit just as hard. A huge plate-glass window at the Fontainbleau Hotel collapsed, and water and wind caused as much as $250,000 damage to rooms in the Deauville and Americana hotels. "It was worse than Argonne," said a 72-year-old World War I vet, but incredibly, the most serious injury Cleo appeared to have caused in all of Florida was a broken arm, suffered by a 60-year-old woman guest at the Fontainbleau when a door fell...