Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cooled. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, Ernest P. Medley begged police to reroute passenger planes that flew low over his house, complained that wind from the propellers often blew off his hat, that the suction pulled off his bedcovers...
...line of cars hurtled down a six-lane highway in bright daylight. Suddenly, a shift in the wind whipped smoke from a burning garbage dump across the highway, forcing one driver to slow down. In a moment, the line became a screeching, telescoping, side-swiping shambles; 25 ears were wrecked or damaged; 13 people were injured, seven hospitalized. But, except for the number of cars involved, it was routine. Nobody had been killed...
...could take the high notes but she couldn't take the altitude, so she abruptly canceled two dates with the National Opera in mile-and-a-half-high Mexico City. Rumored differences with a baritone, said the Opera management, had nothing to do with it. Pons got her wind back, showed up in time to sing Lucia in the season's very last performance...
...prizewinner was a five-foot straw woman with a lifelike straw baby on her back. The baby did the scaring, with a toy windmill whose blades swung in the wind. From the woman's belt dangled a paper banner inscribed: "Increase Production...
...Searching Wind. Robert Young and Sylvia Sidney in Lillian Hellman's angry film sermon against umbrella-carrying diplomats (TIME, July...