Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada, warm and icy air rushed together to form the whirling center of a new storm. Over Abilene, Tex. the clouds turned copper with dust, while a steely blue frost wandered across the Little Big Horn. As the languid, wet air swirled above the cold, it began to generate wind, sleet, thunder and lightning. One bolt killed a woman in Wever, Iowa in the midst of a driving blizzard. At Whittemore, 230 miles away, a bridal couple was unhappily snowbound in a house with 50 wedding guests...
...High Wind. Over the central plains, meanwhile, the dying storm sucked in new air like an empyrean vacuum cleaner. One of its gulps started a tornado roaring through north central Arkansas and southern Missouri. Seven died. Another sent half a dozen twisters spinning through Alabama and up into Georgia. Six died...
Wearing his famous broad-billed cap, perched on a high stool on the flag bridge facing aft ("only a damn fool faces into the wind"), Mitscher directed the mightiest naval unit in history in a soft, flat monotone that belied the compressed fury with which he fought. He was never known to get excited, even when Kamikaze flyers almost literally blew him off the flagships Bunker Hill and Enterprise...
...Budde died on a red plush sofa, wrapped in a thin army blanket supplied by Faseler (she had none of her own). Dr. Elfriede Acker, who handles about 120 frostbite patients a day, reported death by freezing. For six days, Frau Budde lay on her plush sofa, while the wind whipped the brown paper that covered the windows. At last, overworked attendants removed her to an overcrowded cemetery. It was much too cold for Old Man Faseler to attend the funeral...
...ignorant as a babe-and takes shelter in a dive inhabited solely by petty racketeers and prostitutes. Within a few weeks he has been fleeced of his last penny, beaten up again and reduced to skin & bones. When at last Kien's brother, a famed psychiatrist, gets wind of the professor's plight and restores him to his old life, it is too late-Kien, incurably mad, burns himself and his library to the ground...