Word: winded
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Dartmouth won the toss and elected to receive. Bruce Jacob took advantage of a brisk wind, and booted the kickoff into the endzone, giving the Big Green the ball...
...shorthanded. With the prospects for Robert Bork's confirmation all but sunk, former Justice Lewis Powell's empty seat may stay empty for months. In some controversial cases, the eight Justices will be delicately balanced between left and right; with two wings of equal size, the court may wind up as a kind of judicial ostrich -- lots of flap but not much flight...
...distribution of income has tended to wind up unevenly slanted toward the rich. In 1929 1% of U.S. families held 36.3% of the wealth; the proportion fell as low as 20.8% in 1949 but rose back to 34.3% by 1983, Economist Batra notes in The Great Depression of 1990. That disparity is dangerous, he contends, because banks with idle money are tempted to make shaky loans to financially strapped customers, while the rich tend to make increasingly risky investments in search of ever larger returns...
...once there was a whoosh of wind, and I walked over to a brick wall until everything stopped shaking," said Gerald Livezey, a security guard at one downtown building. "Everyone was coming out...circulating, not knowing what...
...always revelled in the destruction of Atlanta in "Gone with the Wind" but now I'm partial to the "Battle of New Orleans"--90 shots of the most dazzling bursts and bangs since American fights blew away Khaddafi's tent. The Cub Scouts gathering in a shack nearby gave it a standing ovation...