Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made an informal little speech before lunch in Bancroft Hall. There was a subdued laugh from the future admirals when the President said: "The future is in your hands. . . . Those of us now running the Government are coming to the end of their term." Then, as a raw wind swept off the river, Army veteran Harry Truman watched the Navy lose to Penn State...
Tariffs. No definite tariff policy was announced, but Taft indicated the way the wind blew. "I think the Smoot-Hawley rates were too high," he said with masterly understatement. "But I don't think we should reduce rates to a point where American industries would be destroyed." He had voted against the reciprocal trade bills, he said, because he thought they gave the President too much discretion. It was for this discretion that ex-Secretary of State Hull had fought so long & hard, believing that presidential power to adjust tariffs was a prime necessity for the horse-trading required...
Leaving a lot of wind behind them and much preliminary work done, and still rubbing their hands, the Republican leaders went home to await other meetings next month and-best of all-the momentous opening of the 80th Congress...
...disappeared behind a grey overcast, and a great stillness fell over the eastern Colorado plains. After that a freezing wind rose, banged barn doors and snatched at the smoke from lonely ranch houses. It grew dark, and salt-like snow began hissing across leagues of sere buffalo grass. Then, for 48 hours, a blizzard-the worst in 33 years-moaned down out of Wyoming with nothing to stop it but fence posts and cottonwood trees...
...battle of the bands sort of blew away in the Stadium gale . . . . the Yale tooters looked blue all the way through in the flimsy outfits as the wind whipped through the loose-fitting uniforms . . . the Harvard Band started out with the temporary advantage of a lull in the storm, but the Crimson stands burst into a consternated hum when their drum major, failed in two attempts to catch his baton after throwing it over the goal posts...