Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Years of jamming buses through Manhattan traffic have given many a driver ulcers, a sulphurous vocabulary, the voice of a mule skinner and a wild ambition-to drive the whole route without stopping. None ever make it, but all pass up wind-chilled passengers with maniacal glee. On a slushy winter morning a good driver, as he speeds past, can hit as many as a dozen fist-flourishing bystanders with the spray from his wheels. Years of diving through elbowing passengers to collect the 10? fares has given many a conductor the temperament of a yegg; most ram their nickel...
Walk along Madrid's Gran Via in the early evening-the hour of the Paseo. Smart women in furs and well-dressed men jostle along the avenue, huddling in their mufflers against the chill wind from the Guadarramas. Street lights gleam on neatly cleaned streets, on the chaste, well-stocked windows of expensive stores. The roadway is crowded with French, German, Italian, British and American automobiles and with rickety taxis that are always full...
...world's coldest regions are areas near the poles where there is little or no sun in winter to warm the air, little wind to bring in warm air, and few clouds to screen the ground from outer space. Under these conditions, the air near the surface loses heat by radiation, often getting considerably colder than the atmosphere far above...
...flurry over whether London's statue to F.D.R. should show him sitting or standing (TIME, Nov. 25) was building into a williwaw. In typical British fashion, most of the wind was blowing up & down the letters-to-the-editor columns in short, violent gusts...
...allusion to Great Britain or its Dominions, Uncle Jules pretended to go into a fury and felt himself come to life for a moment. Everyone was happy. Many people are anti-Semites in the same way as Uncle Jules was an Anjlophobe. . . . Simple reflections, reeds bent in the wind . . . they are the ones who, in all indifference, insure the survival of anti-Semitism . . . through the generations...