Word: winded
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Wheaton's J.V. team handed the Radcliffe J.V. a 4-2 defeat in its next-to-last match of the season yesterday afternoon. The 'Cliffe swingers were blown off the court in four singles matches before rallying to win the doubles in a strong wind storm at Wheaton...
Terry Clarke said the wind made it impossible for her to play her normal game. "It was like playing in a hurricane out there," she said...
Thrown off-balance by the wind and tricky pin placements, the Harvard golfers lost a tight match to Providence College by three strokes yesterday at The Country Club in Brookline. Brown placed a distant third 20 strokes back...
Many a tricky wind current swirls about the place and, full moon or no, you really don't want to be swooping around mountainous country in those fragile contraptions. Still, Coburn is a brave fellow, a smuggler by trade, and strongly motivated-the mother having once been his wife and the eldest child being his. He must take what turns out to be a crash course in handling the gliders, and that is funny...
Died. Richard Hughes, 76, Welsh author best known for his 1929 novel A High Wind in Jamaica, a shocking fable about the evil that innocent children can do; of leukemia; in Merioneth, Wales. In the 33 years after A High Wind, a perennial bestseller, Hughes wrote only one novel before he began The Human Predicament, an ambitious trilogy of historical novels set between the World Wars. In The Fox in the Attic (1962), the first volume, England, Germany and the rise of Hitler are seen through the eyes of a young aristocratic liberal, who continues to observe and philosophize about...