Word: winded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with Max in a motel room of unusual squalor." Near the end of his life, Cheever, ill with cancer, appears along with John Updike on The Dick Cavett Show. Donaldson carefully paraphrases Cheever's critique of himself after viewing the broadcast: "He looked like a viper trying to break wind, he wrote Updike...
...commission that undertook to reform the Pentagon's procurement procedures two years ago. It is also a system, said the commission, that is "fundamentally ill" in the way it awards 15 million contracts annually. Just how wrong things have gone at the Pentagon became apparent last week. Operation Ill Wind, an extensive two-year investigation of fraud and bribery in the handling of major purchases, blew into the open, rattling Washington and the nation's military-industrial complex...
...Sweden, as a solution. The Rosenbergs' sloping lawn is now intersected and ringed with free-form gardens of 3-ft. grasses, Scotch Broom covered with saffron blossoms, blue allium balls, mounds of soft green sedums and spikes of silver-green lavender. "I wanted something to work with the wind," says Carole, reeling off Latin names for her 14 varieties. "And it's easy to maintain...
This is the way it should be, you think. The day so cold you can barely feel your feet. The wind swirling. Two teams playing for a championship...
...during the 1987-88 season, whenever Cleary complimented one of his senior defensemen--Don Sweeney and Jerry Pawloski--he would wind up taking about the other one. Then, he would talk about both in the same breath...