Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Dakota druggist, Humphrey is an able, endlessly energetic, tirelessly talkative man with vaulting ambitions. As a student at the University of Minnesota, he was once told by a political science professor: "If God had given you as much brain as he has given you wind, you would be sure to be another Cicero." In fact, Hubert has brains to spare, a fact which helped to get him elected mayor of Minneapolis in 1945. Three years later, by then a candidate for the U.S. Senate, Humphrey achieved his first national notoriety. Attending the Democratic National Convention, Humphrey made a flaming...
...French driver is always learning. Once he thinks he has grasped the rudiments, his hands unfreeze from the wheel enough for him to gesticulate and shout freely. Then he learns how to wind up his little car to its top 60 or 70 m.p.h. and hold it there, come what may. He advances to understanding the subtleties of the basic traffic law of priorité à droite, which means yielding to the car on the right only if there is no way of bluffing through. Then come more refined arts, such as passing on the crest of a hill...
...Technology has taken dramatic strides over the past two decades. Bridge designers are well-grounded in modern physics and aerodynamics before formulating their designs, then run them through computers that have already been fed data on snow and rain conditions, wind velocities, low and high temperatures, traffic loads and substrata strength...
...purest sort of expression of the architectural concept of form following function. A steel-arch bridge over a deep canyon cannot help completing the frame of a picture of classic beauty: rushing waters below, soaring steel above, and all framing the natural art of rock shaped by wind and water...
...seizes the nasty pirate's ship, 5) storms a citadel, 6) frees all the slaves, 7) can't think of anything more to do. But sit tight. In movies like this, Mother Nature is always ready to cover for a fellow. Along comes a Technicolor earthquake to wind up the picture with a great big bang...