Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wearing long underwear beneath his blue suit for protection against the 19° temperature and the winter wind that howled across the capitol steps in Lansing, Romney declared: "Man is a creature first of God-and then of society. Most problems of our present day are in moral terms and are insoluble without generosity and vision. The people of Michigan have spoken in crisp, clear tones. They demand an end to partisanship for the sake of partisanship. Men of good will from both parties must get together. I shall encourage, support and recognize coalitions of concerned citizens...
...Down below, unaware of his wife's predicament, Bill Scranton began searching in vain. At length, Mary and Coughlin came skiing down to the lodge. They had been stopped cold in the chair lift about 25 ft. above the terrain in a 40-m.p.h., - 10° F. wind. After half an hour, rescuers got them down by tying two ladders together and raising them to the chair. Deeply chilled, Mary Scranton gulped down hot coffee, went home, and returned to ski another...
...pentateuchal plague of minor flaws will further beset your mind. The ships that plow the Suez Canal were all built after the second war to end all wars. The clothes that Arthur Kennedy (a newspaperman with about as much compassion and insight as the Mencken-figure of Inherit the Wind) wears are contemporary with the ships. The music that attacks you stereophonically from every angle is winningly simple-minded: four thousand strings equal desert motif; four thousand strings plus two harps equal sea motif. The beginning, which shows O'Toole meeting his death in a post-war motorcycle accident...
...titles of the Roman Pontiff, the simple designation servus servorum Dei?servant of the servants of God. After delivering a Christmas message in which he rejoiced at the end of the Cuban crisis (he noted that his pleas for peace at that time "were not words shouted into the wind") and pleaded for Christian unity and for peace?"of all the earth's treasures, the most precious and most noteworthy''?he addressed the 50 ambassadors to the Holy See. "The church," said John, "applauds man's growing mastery over the forces of nature and rejoices in all present...
Lawrence of Arabia. To the hero-happy public he was a guerrilla genius, the Galahad of World War I. To his military superiors he was a popinjay. To the Arabs he was Sheikh Dinamit, the spirit of the wind who led them to victory over the detested Turk. To Biographer Richard Aldington he was a cad and a bounder-sado-masochistic, hemi-homosexual, selfpublicizing charlatan whose actual role in the Arab revolt was small and whose subsequent career as a technician in the R.A.F. was merely a theatrical gesture of humility. To Winston Churchill he was "one of the greatest...