Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through the air like supersonic aircraft with much less drag than short, fat, traditional bullets. Several can be fired from the same cartridge, but Army experts prefer to use one per cartridge and have the gun fire three flechettes automatically in quick succession. The darts are easily deflected by wind, brush or even leaves, and when they hit an enemy they may pass straight through his body without doing much damage. But it is far more likely that they will turn and bend, slashing through flesh like high-speed knives...
William F. Russell, visiting professor of Music, will conduct. The major work on the program is Bruckner's Mass in E Minor for eight-part chorus and wind orchestra. A small chamber choir will offer a group of motets, and the full chorus will sing Purcell's anthem, "My Heart is Inditing," accompanied by a string ensemble with harpsichord continuo...
...President had further good reason for choosing Pastore as keynoter. He is an orator who can wind stems with the best of them. He is a champ in rough-and-tumble debate, belts out speeches from the Senate floor without text or notes, all the while flailing and dancing about like a bantamweight going for the K.O. Says one friend: "Nobody will go to sleep while he's talking. And I hope they give him room enough on the platform to move around...
...game of "peaceful coexistence" that Nikita Khrushchev has set out to play often keeps him as busy as a one-man army in a two-front war. There is the problem of keeping his own fractious Communist house in order, and at the same time keeping the warm wind of détente blowing toward the West. Last week missives and missionaries were flying in all directions over Nikita's far-flung battle lines...
...wind up its 1964 expanded schedule of theatrical offerings, the Boston Arts Festival has come up with as stunning and exciting a show as any to be seen in our indoor theatres all last season...