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Word: winded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stony, sere landscape, the marchers trudged last week-40,000 strong. They were young and old, parents with infants, grandparents with dogs and cats, lovers holding hands. They carried sleeping bags, musical instruments, rifles, pistols and submachine guns. As black clouds stacked up over the Samarian foothills, a chill wind whipped through the marchers' ranks; many of the men had to secure their yarmulkes (skullcaps) with bobby pins. Still, they were in a festive mood, strumming guitars and singing patriotic songs around their campfires. From all over Israel, they had descended upon the ancient city of Jericho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Descendants of Abraham | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

JUPITER'S TAIL. Because their cores are molten metal, both Jupiter and the earth possess mighty magnetic fields. Both planets also carry magnetic tails -or bulges in their magnetic fields -caused by exposure to the million-mile-per-hour solar wind, a flow of highly charged particles from the sun. Satellites of the Pioneer series determined in 1966 that the earth's magnetic tail extends some 395,000,000 miles "down solar wind" of the planet. The Pioneer 10 satellite, which recently passed Jupiter on its way out of the solar system, proved that Jupiter's tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: News Under the Sun | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...there is a lot of wind on Lake Ontario, as is likely, then weight could be a big factor. The Linville brothers, former world champions and winners at the recent SPORT regatta at St. Petersburg, could be hindered by the fact that crew Jim weighs only 200 pounds...

Author: By William E. Stedman, | Title: Berg Rejoins Race for Olympic Berth | 5/1/1976 | See Source »

...yard sixteenth, McNealy pulled out a three wood for his second shot but still didn't have enough stick to reach the uphill par four facing into the wind. The sixteenth also exacted a double bogey from Vik, who drove his tee shot into the woods. Vik came right back, flipping a pitch shot that slithered to within one foot of the pin. He flubbed the rushed putt and had to settle...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Williams Mows Down Golfers; Holy Cross Trails in Tri-Meet | 4/29/1976 | See Source »

...seventh and final race of the regatta knocked the wind out of the Crimson sails. Poor and Fleming were over early at the start and finished a disappointing sixth. Hammett and Clark finished fourth...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Stong, | Title: Sailors Are Off Course in Weekend Regattas | 4/28/1976 | See Source »

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