Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...build indoor tennis courts? The wind blows mightily on the flat, exposed Soldiers Field area and makes an efficient practice difficult. Coach Jack Barnaby complains that "it's impossible to build up tennis players the way we do in squash. At present you can predict the outcome of the tennis league in the Fall: it's difficult for the coach to change anything...
...wind on Soldiers is so bad that last Spring it ripped to shreds several canvas screens hung on the fences of the courts. The trees that line one side of the area aren't much help, according to Barnaby...
...group of Cuban exiles got hold of a plane in Costa Rica, devised a scheme to pick up a load of bombs in Guatemala, then fly on to Cuba to blow up two strategic petroleum refineries on the outskirts of Havana. But the U.S. embassy in Costa Rica got wind of the operation and squashed the idea before it could get off the ground...
...while he is cleaning the windshield, very casually: "What's the talk out here about how Kennedy's doing in Washington?" He says, "Oh, you don't hear people talk much about it around here. What's the talk about Jack in Washington?" You wind up giving him a ten-minute analysis of the Washington scene. Bates: That is the classic example of how not to take a pulse. Has it ever occurred to you that you just may not be cut out to be a pulsetaker...
...Chicagoland commuters onto already clogged freeways. When the North Western stopped rolling, so did two-thirds of Wisconsin's multimillion-dollar paper and pulp industry. In the woodlands of Upper Michigan, cut timber piled high at rail sidings, and lumberjacks knew that layoffs were in the wind. Towering grain elevators were idled in Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin because farmers could not move their crops. Cargill Inc. shut its big soybean processing plant in Chicago, and the manager of its Omaha terminal, Ace R. Cory, muttered, "We're just plain out of business...