Word: winded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...disputed land is the size of Minnesota, lakes and all. It falls from the wind-whipped mountains of Gilgit and Ladakh in the north to the idyllic Vale of Kashmir. In the Himalayas, primitive mountain tribesmen keep herds of graceful, sure-footed Kashmir goats, whose soft fleece becomes the cashmere of Fifth Avenue and Regent Street; the cool lakes near Kashmir's capital city of Srinagar are dotted with the elegant houseboats of wealthy Indians...
...narrowly escaped defeat in the regulation four quarters when Oiler Quarterback George Blanda, trying to pass to a wide-open receiver, hit himself on the helmet with the football. At the start of a sudden-death overtime, Texan Captain Abner Haynes unthinkingly elected to kick off, and into the wind at that. But the Dallas defense held, and Tommy Brooker eventually ended the 77-min. marathon with a 25-yd. field goal...
East Berlin resembled the weather-leaden grey skies, bone-chilling wind, a damp slurry of mud and snow. The city was dark, and the shops were sparsely stocked. Only sign of the holiday season was the Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas market) set up near the Sportsplatz. Here a seedy collection of carnival rides attempted gaiety to the music of a prewar Harry James record. Pathetic crowds surrounded the few booths selling candied apples or thin bits of herring on hard rolls. Missing was the pungent smell of broiling sausage, for an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease has made meat, and especially...
...character actors, uncle of former Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, a New Jersey newspaperman's son whose bushy eyebrows, gravelly voice and mile-wide Irish grin lit up the screen in 57 films, most notably as the rollicking Gerald O'Hara in Gone With The Wind and the prototype of a rum-pot frontier doctor in Stagecoach; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...gang warfare, basketball is for gamblers, and Australia is too far to travel to see a decent tennis match. Even baseball, the sportswriters' "national pastime," can be a slow-motion bore: finger resin bag, touch cap, look for sign, shake head, shake again, check first, big sigh, wind up, finally pitch. Crack! Foul ball-and the fans could be halfway to Chicago by jet. Even a good thing palls when the games go on day after day for six months. Football's pros are shrewder: they perform just once a week, 14 times a season...