Word: winded
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Slugging It Out. With only one game left, against Texas A. & M., Royal still is not banking on a national championship-yet. In nearly a quarter of a century, no Texas college has managed to wind up a season No. 1 in the football polls and the downtrodden (2-6-1) Aggies would like nothing better than to bulldog the proud Longhorns. A. & M. has been slugging it out with Texas since 1894; they are such passionate rivals that they have a day all to themselves-Thanksgiving Day-when the rest of the league sits back and enjoys the fight...
...American Cancer Society has thought up a new kind of advertising - uncommercial. Called "Athletes Against Cancer," the campaign is a series of cigarette testimonials in reverse. "I don't smoke," grins Olympics Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias. "Smoking cuts down on wind. And an athlete needs wind as much as he needs his legs. Athletes in top condition don't smoke - they can't afford to." Yankee Pitcher Whitey Ford (who did some testimonial commercials last year for Camels) says: "Cigarette smoking is dangerous for your health. I guess we all know that science has proved...
...wind-whipped Waddenzee Islands of The Netherlands last week, battered landing craft disgorged load after load of equipment and intense men from as far away as Texas, Kuwait and Brunei. Growling Land-Rovers raced up and down sandy stretches recently surrendered by vacationing Dutchmen; helicopters whirred overhead. The invaders represented some of the 24 oil companies that are gunning for a share of the world's second largest natural gas deposit (after Texas). The Dutch government conservatively estimates that 1,100 billion cubic meters of gas bubbles under the Waddenzee Islands and the northern provinces. Others reckon that...
...suggestion, Alfred said, would be to center the year-long course around a major play, and to study some of the minor dramas that led up to it historically. In weekly workshops students could perform scenes of the major play, and wind up the course with a complete production...
...Crimson yachtsmen sailed their Tech dinghies into an early lead in the sixth race, but the Cadets came from behind to force their less experienced opponents into a series of tacking duels in the stretch. The veteran Coast Guard crews easily outmaneuvered their rivals in the light wind to win both the race and the championship...