Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard will be doing well if it can wind up in the top half of the twelve-team tournament; three of the region's top mat powers, Navy, Maryland, and Syracuse, will be participating, and host Coast isn't exactly a pushover, either...
Nearly half of government revenues -and of each German's taxes-goes to pay for the welfare program. "Something just has to give," says a Finance Ministry official. "If we continue at this rate, we are going to wind up taking more away from individuals than we are giving back to them in the way of public services...
There is not one rookie on the ball club, and the bench is so strong that if Boston fielded two teams instead of one, they would probably wind up playing each other for the N.B.A. title. Each Celtic is a specialist. John ("Hondo") Havlicek is a 205-pounder who chose basketball over pro football (he was drafted by the Cleveland Browns), boasts the most efficient elbows in the league. Guard K. C. Jones may not yet be in Cousy's class as a playmaker, but says one insider: "All he needs is a little more time...
Clear air turbulence often occurs where two air masses, moving in opposite directions, grind together. Unlike storm fronts, which present a large, moist target for regular storm-tracking radars, this abrupt change of wind direction, or "wind shear," usually goes unremarked by electronics. Last year RCA technicians tracking swift Army missiles on ultrahigh-frequency (above 5,000 megacycles) C-band radar noticed that they were receiving considerable "backscatter"-unexpected, and apparently unexplainable, echoes-during a clear-sky exercise. They wondered if they were on the track...
...three belong to some children in northern Ontario, but they are staying in a town 250 miles from home while the children are away. Suddenly the Labrador heaves a sigh of nostalgia, sniffs the wind, heads for home. The cat and the terrier tag along, perhaps vaguely aware that they are going back where they belong but certainly unaware that in order to get there they must somehow cross some of the roughest country in Canada...