Word: winded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hockey shin guards, corset-like plastic chest protectors, and all the cold-weather gear they could wear and still waddle to the starting line. Temperatures were in the low 20s, balmy by St. Paul standards, but at the 80-m.p.h. speeds the racers would soon be traveling, the wind-chill factor would make it seem like -20°. Some of the drivers fashioned long tape-and-rubber noses to keep the vapor of their breath from fogging their goggles. Others applied wide strips of tape to their faces to ward off frostbite. Then, setting off in waves of ten, three...
...Limit. On the fourth morning, as the 82 remaining racers waited at Thief River Falls, Minn., to begin the final 148-mile sprint to Winnipeg, a wave of fierce Arctic air-accompanied by a blizzard-swept in. Temperatures plummeted to -16°, and the 30 m.p.h.-wind blew the snow horizontally across the frigid landscape. Even snowmobilers have their limit. Officials called off the race and awarded first-prize money ($10,500) to the contestant with the best time for three days (9:39:43), 19-year-old Archie Simonson of Grand Forks, N. Dak. Simonson has already earmarked...
Texas was having its worst January ever recorded. In Dallas the temperature hit 12° and the flow of natural gas in one of the nation's petroleum-richest states was curtailed to heavy industrial users. High winds aggravated the cold. Texans say they use logging chains fastened to stout posts as wind gauges-and this month the chains have been flying flat...
Gilmore sent Amber Jim one of his own poems, a gloomy meditation that began "Feeling a beckoning wind blow thru/ The chambers of my soul I knew/ It was time I entered in ..." On a cheerier note, he said he had asked a relative to buy her an 8-mm. movie camera and projector. He thought about her every day, would write to her every day, and added: "Be cool. I love...
Both Cauthens agreed that balance and the lowest possible wind resistance are the keys to a good seat. Today Steve rides so low and so level that other jockeys, looking back, sometimes think he has fallen off; they are often unable to see him crouched behind his horse's head. Father and son also agreed on what would happen if Steve suddenly grew beyond jockey size. Says Ronald Cauthen: "He was to get an education, and if he had to reduce to ride, he would not ride. I knew of too many jockeys who starved themselves to death...